We’re linking periodically to selected videos from our YouTube channel. Today’s video is Mike Buchanan appears before House of Commons inquiry, ‘Women in the Workplace’ (56:49). The piece was recorded in November 2012, three months before we launched J4MB.

Giving oral evidence to the committee along with myself were:

• Steve Moxon, author of The Woman Racket (2018)
• Dr Catherine Hakim, creator of Preference Theory, which outlined how four times more men than women are work-centred
• Heather MacGregor, owner of an executive recruitment company in London, Taylor Bennett. At the time, 20 of its 22 staff and directors were female. Gender equality in the workplace is a fine thing.

On behalf of our allied Campaign for Merit in Business I presented to the inquiry evidence of the causal link between increasing the proportion of women on boards, and financial decline. The myth that there’s a ‘business case’ for it, that it leads to financial improvement – invariably presenting correlation as causation – persists to this day, unchallenged in the mainstream media.

Two weeks ago I publicly challenged four leading proponents to present evidence of a causal link with financial improvement, and of course I’ve heard nothing back from any of them. Details of the challenge are here. The proportion of women on FTSE100 company boards has increased from 5% to 42% between 2000 and today, yet there’s no evidence of financial performance improvement resulting. It’s a mystery, all right…

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