A new academic study (1) is challenging one of the central policies of gender diversity -boardroom quotas for women. They have been the central plank of the push for diversity in business, not just to promote more diversity in the boardroom, but also to encourage it below the board. This study challenges this. It argues(2) that mandating more females on boards actually reduces diversity, because men don’t like them and take revenge on other...
You’ve just seen a report that concludes what you ‘already knew’. Maybe it’s that having more diversity on a board increases profit, or that eating butter causes heart disease, or that first born children make better CEOs. You pass on, feeling suitably confirmed in your world view. But how reliable is that conclusion?  Perhaps, like me, you are not a statistician, so you feel you can’t challenge the complex mathematics? How does a lay person...
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