When you look an an elite school, a huge fraction of professors have parents as professors. If the system was going to be made fair maybe 70% of the people who are getting those jobs today would have to be told, starting grad school, that they were automatically disqualified from getting a job in academia to give somebody else a chance.
Women do have real problems but it's also a fact that doubling the applicant pool doubles the number of professor's kids that the system wants to hire and makes it harder for outsiders to get in.
