For the same reason you hear so much talk about "diversity" in the US: it's because of arcane legal arguments in Supreme Court. It's really long and boring, to

For the same reason you hear so much talk about "diversity" in the US: it's because of arcane legal arguments in Supreme Court. It's really long and boring, to be honest, but if you are interested, I recommend reading about original reasoning in Roe v. Wade to learn how right to abortion got connected to privacy, and Grutter v. Bollinger about how racial preferences in education and hiring can be washed through the language of "diversity". If the arguments pushed there don't make sense to you (e.g. why does constitutional right to privacy gives you right to abortion until 20+ week, but doesn't give you right to privately use drugs, or e.g. why you're not allowed to discriminate anyone on the basis of race, and in particular you're not allowed to create quotas for racial groups in education admissions, but as soon as you call these quotas "diversity targets", you're allowed to make decisions to reject and admit candidates based on race in order to meet them), that's expected: Roe v. Wade has recently been overruled, and Grutter v. Bollinger will probably be overruled soon.