Has diversity failed? We need to try harder!

摘要

In 19901 was given the task to break the male domination of the fire service I belonged to at the time. Like all Australian Fire Services, there were no female firefighters in the organization when I started. If I had been asked, back them, 'what would the fire service look like in 2016?' I would have predicted 30% to 40% female and a good representation of other ethnic groups in the service. I was wrong and failed. As a male 25 years ago I/we didn't know what we didn't know about the issues relating to diversity, we even had all male committees trying to figure out how to recruit females.