Up to him whether to marry and get divorced! Jokes aside in 2017 I should use he/she/they/it and I am just not brain damaged enough to do that every time.
Are you immortal or do you have a time machine? New people with new opinions mature every day. Pay gap was debunked long ago yet the dead horse gets beaten every month.
So not only you have to compete with non-meritocratic hires to come on board, you are expected to tutor them afterwards and save their egos while code reviewing?