“Having a diverse set of people really means you’re much less likely to have blind spots.”
Another reason for the results, the researchers said, could be
that the pool of qualified women is so untapped that female hires tend to be of exceptionally high quality, which could lead to higher returns.
In Silicon Valley, the venture capitalists who invest in tech start-ups are significantly more likely to hire a female
investing partner if the hiring partners have daughters, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard.
The researchers ran a calculation comparing firms, and found
that on average, the presence of one more daughter instead of a son for each senior partner increased the probability of hiring a female senior investor over a male by 24 percent.
“But if I have a daughter, I do come into contact with her and her friends, so it breaks the flocking with like-minded people.” Ms. Sen was not involved in the new study, but found in a previous study
that judges, particularly Republican ones, were more likely to vote in favor of women on issues like sex discrimination if they had daughters.
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But because the sex of children is random — providing natural experimental
and control groups — and because it affected the likelihood of hiring female partners, the study was able to compare the effect of diversity on performance.