Thread ancestor was hedging carefully with the word 'irrelevant'. I'm not drawing any instances to mind where someone argued that sexism was irrelevant to the workplace, only people arguing that the current crop of policies are unfair or counterproductive. Damore springs to mind, he had a section titled "Non discriminatory ways to reduce the gender gap" and so it would be difficult to argue that he thought inaction was the goal.

What is politics is in itself political, but I expect there will be a fair majority of people who want corporations to focus on carrying out basic tasks effectively rather than devoting resources to experimental (or divisive) social reform. The risks of corruption and bad outcomes are real.