Researcher question – what's the point of semicolons and curly braces?

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 19:38:45 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> If we want to close all gaps, we should also close the gender 
> gap for occupational fatalities:
>
> http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2009/09/occupational-male-female-death-gap-is.html
>
> That means 4,000 more women will die on the job this year, make 
> sure you mention that to any feminist pushing those bogus pay 
> gap figures.

Why close the gaps in the first place? Why diversity is not good?