My employers, bless them, are great believers in Diversity and Inclusion. At the global level, they want to make the organisation as diverse as possible on three parameters: gender, nationality, and physical handicap.
In India, the country office decided to focus on gender diversity. Increasing the number of nationalities in India is complex because of visa issues (not to mention that most people of other nationalities would rather not work here), and including physically handicapped people in the organisation requires large investments in infrastructural changes. Bringing women in and making them feel more comfortable is comparatively low hanging fruit.
Except that it screws up diversity on other dimensions, which aren’t being measured.
The thing is, women from smaller towns are much less likely to have the qualifications a woman from a metro does. More to the point, societal norms will act as a barrier to women migrating to metros and taking up jobs there even if they have qualifications. So increasing the gender mix and getting more women into the workplace will actually end up throttling geographical diversity or diversity of personal background.
This isn’t a huge problem if you think gender diversity is far more important than any sort (there are good arguments both for and against such a presumption), but it just illustrates that diversity as an end in itself can end up being self-defeating.