2019 Federal Election

[danbrotherston]

Of course, but certain things mean you are guaranteed NOT to have this experience.  Again, this comes from aggregate. If EVERYONE on your senior management team is a man, then nobody on that team has had experience tracking their period, thus are going to have a blindspot to that need.  If half your team is women, there's a very good chance that someone will have had such an experience.

I'd caution against that kind of thinking. It may be fine to play the odds ("he or she is of x race, he hasn't likely had that experience") on a casual basis. The higher the stakes become, the more time you ought to be prepared to invest in figuring out if a specific individual has knowledge or experience of them. You can make educated assumptions about people, but you shouldn't go about believing that assumptions are "guaranteed" to be correct.

Again, you're assuming I'm speaking of individuals.  I explicitly said in the next sentence, "in aggregate"...if your entire management team is white men, it is not going to have as broad a set of lived experiences as if it was diverse.

The point is, having diversity on your team brings benefits that cannot be achieved by simply selecting all the best people, if even objectively, the best people are all from one group.