gender quotas

A citizens’ jury has given the thumbs up to gender quotas for public sector leadership positions, though not without some dissent.

Despite significant progress, the conversation around gender quotas keeps coming back to the question of merit. But researchers and boards alike say objective merit, as we think of it, is mythical.

It promised name-blind recruiting, now the UK is debating gender quotas for top permanent secretary ranks. Australian and UK gender ratios in senior roles are almost identical, so why haven’t there been similar calls here?