Mark Carney is known to be an enthusiastic supporter of increasing the number of women in senior positions or, as we prefer to put it, reducing the number of men in senior positions. This is a feminist project which, by definition, has nothing to do with appointing the person with the most merit – work ethic, experience, expertise – regardless of gender.
Last week a national newspaper reported Carney as warmly welcoming the ‘success’ of initiatives designed to increase the number of women in senior roles at the Bank of England, and then he came out with this gem:
Hiring more women in senior roles makes us much, much more effective.
Well, he was inviting a public challenge from J4MB, wasn’t he? We were happy to oblige. It’s here.
Justice for Men & Boys 
Mike, in Australia, the push to give (yes give) woman management positions is well undergoing, guess how it was achieved by the banks? Every senior manager is rewarded in a form of bonuses for each position given to a woman as a manager in a bank. A friend’s husband in Sydney was applying for a bank manager position (transfer from another bank), he was told he was the front runner until he received a call and was advised by the interviewer the position must be given to a woman. I asked him if he will sue for sexual discrimination, but like with everything else men do not like to complain about it – rightly or wrongly.
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I think it helpful to hold in mind that when Mr.Carney says hiring more women will make the bank “much much more effective”, it is not made clear within that quote, effective at what? This gives him more wiggle room to fine tune the meaning to whatever justification is required at the time. This must must support the suspicion that the quote is empty and meaningless, and is intended merely to sound good, and to invite his audience to supply their own preferred interpretation. Thus it need not, in itself, be taken too seriously, although the motivation for it should be.
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I can think of no metric for which putting more women into senior positions would make an organisation ‘much, much more effective’.
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Dear Mike,
Neither can I!
I’m sure it’s not beyond his talents to make one up though.
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