Umm, all of these practices are soon going to die. After affirmative action admissions got shot down, the weaker sister, hiring, doesn’t have any leg to hide behind much less stand on.
Welllllllll....
Not so fast perhaps...
You need to remember what got hired over the last 50 years, tenure, departmental support, faculty selection, and selection of MA students to PhD programs (future college instructors). Schools that have departments run by a gay Dean are going to skew gay for a long, long, time... same for latino run departments, black run departments, female run departments...