The hiring group population isn’t 90% white male. Close to 80-85% but still overwhelmingly white male.

The question is does the percentage of any group getting hired equal the same percentage of that group’s share of the overall hiring pool. Ignoring military/civilian how many different sub groups are there? Four to five major groups? The company has stated, for at least one year, that they hired twice as many out of one group. That doesn’t happen randomly so to some extent target hiring was, and might still be, part of the process.

With the largest group being white males doubling a small sub group’s hiring resulted in approx 10% less white males getting hired.

Some would argue that “it’s only 10%” but the 10% that got discriminated against, for their gender and skin color, probably don’t feel that way.