GreyMamba

Just recently the UK House of Lords has inflicted numerous defeats on the Government's Brexit Bill. The problem is - is this compatible with the HoL's remit to scrutinise laws made in the elected House of Commons or is it a party-political ruse to scupper the results of the UK Brexit referendum result?

I have often thought that our modern push to get equal gender representations in all walks of life is a commendable ideal - but might not actually give the best results for an organisation or society as a whole. We all tend to all agree that there are generic personality differences between the sexes but that these differences are pretty small and that the 'spread' of these traits creates a large overlap between them. So, the argument goes, we can ignore these small differences and expect in any civilised modern society to strive for an exact balance of men and women in any given role.

However, this egalitarian ideal may well be great when considering the population whose personality traits are reasonably close to the average, but what happens if we are selecting the very best person for a role, where we might be looking at people with traits near the extremes? Does this make a difference?