Why diversity quotas in the boardroom may be a good idea
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Today we feature a guest post from our colleague over in the law school, Aaron A. Dhir, who is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. Aaron's book on boardroom diversity is out next month and it is causing quite a stir. So we asked him to tell us a little about the issue of diversity quotas on boards and why, despite the controversy, his research suggests that it might be a good idea. The lack of diversity in the governance of business corporations is quickly becoming one of the most discussed topics in corporate governance. It has ignited a heated global debate, leading policymakers to wrestle with difficult questions that lie at the intersection of market activity and social identity politics. My new book, Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity , will be published next month by Cambridge University Press. In it, I draw on semi-structured interviews with corporate board directors in Norway and documentary cont...