[Tell It Right]

I hate calling women "minorities" anyway regardless of expectations and such.

The bottom line is that our country has more women than men. By definition, men are the minorities.

[Varda]

I agree. I think this trope of AA being a minority benefit obscures the real problem. We are sacrificing our best and brightest who are a minority.
I'm old enough to remember the days when academic departments discriminated against minorities and women. It wasn't good then and the new discrimination isn't good now.

[alternatives?]

It is minority in a certain category such as engineer or programmer. They are never concerned with categories where males (particularly white) are in the minority.