Does diversity correlate to higher dividends for stockholders? Do all male engineering companies have a lower return to stockholders than engineering companies with higher percentages of females? I'd be quite interested to know of any research that shows that. And is it just diversity in general? Or specific kinds of diversity? Does diversity of gender deliver the same reward as diversity of race?
Let's remember the original claim that I was responding to:
"The best companies are the ones that, whenever possible and within reason, try to ensure their employee base reflects the diversity of their customers."
That's a pretty big claim which amounts to: "a mostly black company, or even a racially mixed company, cannot serve a mostly white customer base as well" Are you really sure you want to be making that claim?