This is the top voted comment right now, but I'm struggling to understand it. You grant (at least for the sake of discussion) that more women would help with t

This is the top voted comment right now, but I'm struggling to understand it. You grant (at least for the sake of discussion) that more women would help with the tech industry's sex discrimination problems, and that diversity itself would "probably" be good. But then you ask, "but other than that, why is it important?" It makes no sense to disregard sex discrimination and diversity when considering whether this topic is important. Sex discrimination and diversity are themselves already important. It's like asking about the benefits of exercise, setting aside the health benefits and psychological benefits. > Why aren't we as worried that not enough men show interest in being nurses or kindergarten teachers or social workers? People do worry about those topics, but we mostly talk about tech here on Hacker News.