This can be a question of seemingly small details in some cases: research has found that the language in many companies' job announcements can be stereotypically masculine: "rock-star" coder, "hard-driving" environment, etc., leading to fewer female applicants and hurting diversity efforts at the onset of the process.
Wesleyan, with about 3,000 students, has had the most heated recent debate over the issue, with protests by students who said a change in admissions policy would hurt campus diversity, and there have even been some confrontations between students and the university's president, Michael S. Roth.
In order to do so, state governments have to take extreme measures, instituting deep cuts that often hurt a diversity of residents.
Though virgin birth -- known as parthenogenesis (from the Greek παρθένος, parthenos, meaning "virgin", and γένεσις, genesis, meaning "birth") -- may "hurt genetic diversity and yield only all-female or all-male progeny," study co-author Warren Booth told Discovery News," it could also weed out mutations that can make individuals less fit".
But that experiment didn't prove that valuing diversity hurt performance scores.
Some corporate employers have complained that the lack of housing diversity hurts their efforts to recruit younger workers.
A lack of diversity hurts the BBC's claims to be a "universal" service paid for by all licence fee payers, Lammy will say.
It never hurts to have diversity in your investment portfolio and a little bit of a hedge against inflation.
But there have been some interesting studies from liberal scholars that certain kinds of diversity can hurt civic life and erode trust.
