In all seriousness, the way it comes across is, "I wanted to hire some qualified women, because now that we're in the 1970's, it's the right thing to do, so I went out and contacted some women's groups, who sent me resumes of some women I had never heard of before, and that was great.."
Really, he has been in business and politics for that long, and he doesn't know a single qualified woman himself? He's never run into one? Doesn't know any? Not even a single one of his own contacts is a qualified woman? He needed to contact women's groups to learn that they exist, to find some resumes of these strange creatures?