I disagree. Science is science, not racial relations, gender relations, or anything else.
If someone can use the scientific method to formulate a hypothesis, create a way to test it, and observe the results, what difference on earth does it make whether a person is a man woman, homosexual, transgender, asian, black, white, purple, or anything else?
If constructs are put into place to steer less qualified people into certain fields at the expense of more qualified people to make a workforce, college, or any other endeavor more “diverse”, how does that make science better?
If a paint manufacturer is going to adjust their hiring processes to employ people based more on their gender or skin color instead of their resume or qualifications, how is that difference in anatomy or race going to produce better paint?
Why is it important that a mathematician have a different skin pigmentation to solve a problem? Why should a hypothesis be viewed any differently because someone has a penis versus breasts and a vagina? Does having different anatomy somehow make it more valuable or valid?
People should be accepted, graded, hired, and paid on the basis of merit, not on the basis of their skin pigmentation, country of birth, or physical anatomic equipment. To conduct affairs on the basis of those things over merit is to promote mediocrity.
I’m not for steering LESS qualified people to the sciences. I am against that.
But we do want to make sure that sufficiently talented people who might be IGNORED due to their ethnicity, are not ignored. The point is not to let qualified, intelligent people have their talents go to waste, Good Will Hunting style.