[ArialAnemone]

How are they not justified?

A cynical understanding of human nature and society serves a person far better than the opposite.

People want to do less work than more work. For people involved in acquiring, placing, and managing human resources, an easy way to signal "work"/"useful work" is by parroting the line of superficial diversity.

That's my experience at least. I win far more bets by assuming the worst of intentions than the best in these hiring games.

In the military you see a big push for "diversity", especially in relation to sex, where all sorts of carrots are trotted out just to have a platonic makeup of sees in the armed forces. Nevermind that one of those sexes has an ace in the hole called "pregnancy" which the mil. Bureaucracy will bend to accommodate.

Nevermind the disastrous effects on morale and confidence in command this brings to some poor bastard from Nebraska who goes through all sorts of shit. If he gets a girlfriend, or God forbid a wife, he faces the risk of absolute cuckery on that side. If he messes around with whores and the command is looking for a scapegoat, they'll bring him up for ucmj charges. Meanwhile if his girlfriend/wife messes around with boys on the base, she has no repercussion for her actions.

"Wait, what about the pregnant female soldiers?"

Easy office job and easy promotion because higher-ups would rather have eye candy over a more disposable resource (competent males).

What gets me is the total denial of this facet of human nature by those who push "diversity".

[sidlls]

I invite you to re-read this comment after you've had time to reflect. So much about it is representative of exactly the sort of casual sexism that runs rampant in this industry. From the assumptions about "human nature" to the straw-man "diversity" you describe, even.