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“Gender inequality is a genuine business risk” stated Helen Brand, chief executive of ACCA. In general male workers overpopulate female workers.  ACCA states this can be a substantial risk for individual businesses and the market as a whole.

According to the article, “diversity can provide various insights, create initiatives, provide good governance, and enhance business performance”. These are valid points that favors the importance of diversity. However, there are flaws that fails to be considered in this article. Although it is true that male workers overpopulate the female workers (as seen by a BLS report), part of this fact is lies in the supply for female workers. As also seen from the BLS report, there is a greater amount of female who are not in the labor force, which signifies that they are unwilling to work, rather than being unemployed.

In the article, there is particular focus on accountants, and stating there is gender inequality against female for accountants as well. However, statistics shows otherwise. Although I must agree regarding the importance of diversity in business, there are some flawed arguments made within this article.

http://www.accaglobal.com/ca/en/discover/news/2015/08/diversity-kampala.html?from=XX

http://www.bls.gov/cps/wlf-databook-2013.pdf

http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-accounting

http://www.accaglobal.com/ca/en/discover/news/2015/08/diversity-kampala.html?from=XX