Variegation

It has been my displeasure to sit around a table listening to a bunch of board level business types rabbit on about programs for gender re-balancing of company boards in the interests of diversity.

Once, and I must have been thoroughly bored at the time, I noted that, in my experience, putting skirts on the white anglo north shore pigs-at-the-trough did absolutely nothing to engender diversity.

Pushing on, I noted that a little diversity along racial and sexual orientation lines might actually create a little genuine board diversity and thus challenge management to step up.

There was a chilly silence, followed by the sound of the mental tapes being wiped, and then the concerned conversation carried on as if nothing had ever been heard.