Apparently I'm the only white millennial male on this website so I guess I'll give a bit of my perspective.
My experience is in commercial construction in a non-racially diverse area. The company I worked for was all genx upper leadership, vast majority millennial labor (both white and blue collar), and a handful of boomer mercs doing sales/bus development while waiting for retirement. Sidenote, I never saw a non-boomer in any sales or business development role, kind of odd.
As a regional subcontractor/supplier I was able to work closely with companies from under 10 employees to those with a national/global presence. We were always looking for people on the blue collar side so basically if you could pass the welding test or whatever equivalent you were hired. There didn't appear to be any favoritism or discrimination with women.
White collar is a bit different. My observation throughout the industry was certainly that being a woman added a bonus positive quality to career progression. This doesn't mean incompetent women were being hired or promoted, just that unspoken value discussed all over this thread of "all things being equal, we'll go with the woman".
This never made me angry or anything, I just looked at it similar to how fat and ugly people are disadvantaged, or in my case how a "shy" quiet guy who is very uncomfortable with small talk will top out at a level before someone comfortable with talking to clients. Construction is still male dominated and I didn't mind the efforts equalize things.
That's all, merry Christmas.