I don't think we as a society can have our cake and eat it: if there is an initiative, it will become public one way or another. So if you must have one, you

I don't think we as a society can have our cake and eat it: if there is an initiative, it will become public one way or another. So if you must have one, you must be honest about it and accept the consequences. Lying about it will just make everyone all the more suspicious and prejudiced. And that is without touching any of the other issues here (pipeline problems, defining diversity by external criteria, etc)