The quality of decisions can be hard to measure objectively and the impact of gender on economic policymaking is difficult to disentangle from that of other personal or professional characteristics. Context matters here, as may selection effects and the attainment of a critical mass threshold.
6 Yet, while all these challenges make it difficult to predict the precise effects of increasing gender parity on economic policy outcomes, it is important to emphasize what they share in common: none of them constitutes a cogent argument for advocating against more gender diversity.