Who would do this though? Why is it always the assumption that you have to lower the qualifications to hire anyone but a white man?
What would you say most businesses traditionally looked for when hiring leaders? I'd say it is a fair assumption that overall, qualifications were probably the first thing. And yes, sometimes the female candidate has the best qualifications. Where we sit today is men dominate a lot of these fields. When we have movements now that "need more women," what happens? Do we have a bunch of equally skilled or better female candidates just pop out of no where? Maybe, but probably not often. While anecdotal, I have seen many times where it was "close" between two candidates, but the woman was chosen to fill the quota. I think it would be hard to argue that this movement hasn't caused instances of that.
Depends on the business. If your business is trying to reach a wide variety of customers, than having a wide variety of people involved might find better ways to broadly increase appeal. A wide variety of people interacting with each other in their business may improve general people relations, which may improve their ability to communicate to a wide variety of customers.
I mean you must have googled this if you honestly have these questions. Do you not believe this studies and articles that list out the positives?
https://www.google.com/search?q=diversity helps organizations
Note, this doesn’t mean a non diverse business will fail. But there is evidence some diversity might help it succeed.
I’ll never understand why people hate this topic so much. You often want more points of view when running a business to expand your and appeal
I'm not here to say that "white men deserve every job". Diversity has its place. Maybe I wasn't clear enough on that. It does make sense for a business to reflect its community. You wouldn't market products to women with no women working on that division. You don't place a store in a black community with no black employees. You certainly can't have any big business with all white men.
It has gotten out of hand though. I was once tasked with this before in a male-dominated industry. It's very troubling when you start discriminating instead of finding talent. It was even counter-productive. Many of the women that did get brought in, tend to not work out well for that particular role. Again, maybe it's that issue of representation.
Let me ask you this. Would the construction industries, HVAC technicians, waste disposal, landscaping, etc be better off with more women because diversity is better? If diversity is so beneficial, where is the call for more men to be kindergarten teachers, administrative assistants, childcare workers, and nurse practitioners? That's because it's not truly about diversity. It's about getting women into the higher paying positions. Ones that they don't desire on a large scale. No amount of feel good articles on Google makes that any better.