If scholarship programs want to target gender or ethnicity, I have no problem with it. My question is where does it end? If 20 years from now there is a less-than-desired increase of women or POC in STEM programs and professions, or military/police/firefighters, etc, will systemic privilege still be the culprit? Or will culture and predisposition finally be examined as an influence?

Two examples:
Charles Barkley cites his visits to schools and the overwhelming majority of black kids who want to become musicians or athletes when they grow up as opposed to white kids who want to be scientists or engineers. That's culture at work and can be changed. 

The other is my experience with the military. The overwhelming majority of those working in technical/mechanical fields are white men along with a large representation of Hispanic men. Call me sexist if you wish, but three decades of experience in this field has proven to me that most women aren't interested in hands-on technical professions.

I remember an occasion when the ship I was on was finishing a lengthy rework and repair schedule. The ship workers had left a triwall of various leftover tools and machine parts in the hangar bay for anyone to pick and choose from (I still have a tap and die set). While there were plenty of women onboard, only the men were digging through it for hidden treasures. While standing next to the XO, who was picking through it as well, he commented "It's a guy thing."  That's predisposition.

So whatever it takes to finally put this privilege and bias assertion to bed, let it happen. But if they do not get the utopian results they wish, perhaps the argument will turn inwards toward human nature. Somehow I doubt it, though.

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