On: We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline...

[AdrianB1]

Why is 50% the useful number? Why not 25 or 40 or 60 or 75%? Any number needs a justification, 25% or 75% alike, so why 50%? We have 80% females in the marketing department and it is actually much larger than the IT department. Should we have 50%? Why? Actually we have a pipeline problem there too, not so many males interested in marketing. Is that a problem that needs to be solved?

[romwell → AdrianB1]

>We have 80% females in the marketing department and it is actually much larger than the IT department. Is that a problem that needs to be solved?

It depends on whether it has been a consistent trend across the vast majority of marketing departments and companies, like it is wit software.

Just like having one software company with 80% women is not a solution, having one company with 80% women in marketing is not a problem.

50% is a useful number because that's about the proportion of women in the world (did I really have to spell that out?).