Be careful with the word "meritocracy". Perhaps all you mean by "meritocracy" is picking the people who are best at X when hiring people to do X, but the suffix

Be careful with the word "meritocracy". Perhaps all you mean by "meritocracy" is picking the people who are best at X when hiring people to do X, but the suffix -cracy has a well established meaning so "meritocracy" will often be understood as a sinister alternative to democracy. I tend to think that diversity should not be a "goal" except perhaps in the case of political representation. However, diversity is generally a good thing and if there is a lack of diversity in some field then this should be seen as a potential symptom of something being wrong. People just need to make sure that they correctly identify and fix the underlying problem rather than just "fix" the symptom.