Fwd: [LCS-Closed] Diversity

[Lisa Crispin]

I try to be serene about this. But it's really hard. Why are people such asshats?

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From: Lisa Crispin <lisa.c...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [LCS-Closed] Diversity
To: lcs-aft...@googlegroups.com


ok, well, I await your statistics on how the lack of gender diversity improves profitability, innovation and competitiveness.

What's the big freaking deal? Why is it bad to celebrate the contributions of women? We celebrate the contributions of men all the time.
-- Lisa

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Jon Kern <jonk...@gmail.com> wrote:

hmmm.... this might qualify as the kind of "junk statistics" I was speaking of.

While these may indeed be irrefutable "facts" or at least correct observations, I am left with a whopping "So what?"

Is there truly causation? Could those companies also be in sunny climates, leading one to state that higher profits are related to sunshine?

I must confess, I did not read any more than what you excerpted... so maybe the full study states just why women in senior management naturally leads to profitability. (<tongue-in-cheek>Gonna go ask my wife to head up my consulting firm now! We'll start spending the expected 35% profit boon now, though. </tongue-in-cheek>)

jon
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Lisa Crispin said the following on 6/10/10 8:56 PM:

The NCWIT report contains extensive data about how the loss of women in IT impacts corporate profitability, innovation, and competitiveness. For example, companies with the highest representation of women in senior management teams had a 35% higher return on equity and a 34% higher return to shareholders.

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Lisa Crispin
Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009)
Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009)
http://lisacrispin.com
@lisacrispin on Twitter

--
Lisa Crispin
Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009)
Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009)
http://lisacrispin.com
@lisacrispin on Twitter