Your customer base is irrelevant in this case

it's the same logic from the employer's perspective. fostering as diverse an atmosphere as possible based on the given talent pool makes it more likely that people of different backgrounds will feel included, and thus more likely that you will get top candidates regardless of background.

There's ~50% women, so you'd expect there to be 50% female leaders. However, women choose different fields, which means the will be less women qualified for the job. This means it might actually be fair even if there's less women.

this is a different thing than what we're talking about. i have not mentioned specific quotas, don't infer them.

However it's important to realise this doesn't make a company diverse, as they're all probably of upper/middle class cosmopolitan backgrounds, meaning they actually have very similar attitudes and experiences if anything.

um yeah, this is the thrust of my comment above, which you had to read to get down here so....