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I was at business function today where I heard, for the umpteenth time, about the movement to promote schemes that result in more women in senior business roles in Australia.

The data is compelling; the percentage of female CEOs and board members in Australia’s listed companies is well, well below 50%.

But I thought to myself, where’s the same argument applied to ethnic minorities and indigenous people? It doesn’t exist.

Why not?

The truth is that women have got to a certain representation that allows them to have a voice and promote the issue that they felt unduly made their own journey’s more difficult than their male colleagues.

Somehow every ‘minority’ has to magically get to some minimum threshold of representation whereafter they can collectively fight for their cause from within.

As an aside, this argument for representation in listed companies sort of proves that these roles have no genuine function; anyone can do them so long as they are sufficiently trained.

By comparison, privately owned and developed companies; the only barrier to entry here is character and perseverance. Sex, race, religion; they matter not a twat.

You don’t hear anyone who has started their own business talk about ‘representation’. It’s a term which makes no sense to them. You want it? Make it happen.