First, to come closer to the most charitable, least controversial framing of what&#x27;s happening here, replace (c) with:<p>d) to show the world that companies are more successful when they don&#x27;t adopt practices that exclude black women engineers?<p>Then, to be fully charitable, replace &quot;black women&quot; with &quot;statistically underrepresented people&quot;, or whatever term you feel comes closest to that which will allow us not to pointlessly litigate.<p>Then, I think the answer is (a, b, d).<p>Finally, the simplest, most obvious implication of them not feeling &quot;like a prop&quot; is that they <i>share the objective that their employer has in promoting the idea</i>. The term &quot;prop&quot; is derisive. We don&#x27;t feel like &quot;props&quot; when we work with other people towards shared goals, even though our work is, directly or indirectly, helping those other people as well.