> maybe they’re under represented in these fields in the UK and the government wants to fix that? Or maybe they're not, and this is a representative sample? Ac

> maybe they’re under represented in these fields in the UK and the government wants to fix that? Or maybe they're not, and this is a representative sample? Academics move around a lot: seemingly half the faculty at my local university are immigrants, and a good chunk of the graduates become emigrants. You might be right, but I get unreasonably annoyed when people insist that the existence of women or members of minority groups must be a diversity initiative. The mere existence of people is not a political statement.