Difference, Diversity and Gender

Abstract

A growing body of research links economic performance to diversity. There is now considerable evidence from the US and Europe that having a gender-diverse board is strongly correlated1 with bottom line success. A research report by Credit Suisse, after testing the performance of 2,360 companies globally, concluded that “it would on average have been better to have invested in corporates with women on their management boards than in those without”.

“…. the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.”

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty