When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Your friendly conversations are about building a more inclusive environment. All else being eq

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Your friendly conversations are about building a more inclusive environment. All else being equal, that results in a more diverse workforce. Measuring inclusivity and fairness is hard, so coorporations instead optimize for a more measurable metric: demographic diversity. The easiest way to optimize that metric is discrimination. Coorporations, being optimization machines look for the most effcient way of optimizing the metric that is (broadly) legal, which still looks fairly discriminatory.