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He talks about diversity of sex and race being necessary to have a diversity of viewpoints. If that is true doesn't that imply that that different sexes and races have fundamental differences based on those attributes? If so shouldn't we expect a diversity imbalance in every occupation. That is, people with fundamental differences will tend to want to do different things. If it's not true then why care about diversity of sex or race.

Also I disagree with this line from the article: "A diversity imbalance suggest that there are many women, who would have good careers as programmers, who are not getting the opportunity to do so." If women are denied opportunities as programmers there will be an imbalance. An imbalance can be caused by any number of other factors.