I studied in a STEM field and the growing obsession with giving an unfair chance to minority and women is one of the toxic point that had me leave academia. There are so many more grants, opportunity for talks, collaboration, subsidized research for women and minorities - and the outcome is that we select a disproportionate amount from a group that has no specifically selected trait for success. This will lead to lower quality science and other countries that actually fund good (and not "equal") science will come out ahead (think China). Scientific knowledge has no morals and painting brilliant scientists as ethical leaders of our society gives them a burder slowing down the output of knowledge too.