“Having a diverse set of people really means you’re much less likely to have blind spots.”

“Having a diverse set of people really means you’re much less likely to have blind spots.”<br />Another reason for the results, the researchers said, could be<br />that the pool of qualified women is so untapped that female hires tend to be of exceptionally high quality, which could lead to higher returns.<br />In Silicon Valley, the venture capitalists who invest in tech start-ups are significantly more likely to hire a female<br />investing partner if the hiring partners have daughters, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard.<br />The researchers ran a calculation comparing firms, and found<br />that on average, the presence of one more daughter instead of a son for each senior partner increased the probability of hiring a female senior investor over a male by 24 percent.<br />“But if I have a daughter, I do come into contact with her and her friends, so it breaks the flocking with like-minded people.” Ms. Sen was not involved in the new study, but found in a previous study<br />that judges, particularly Republican ones, were more likely to vote in favor of women on issues like sex discrimination if they had daughters.<br />A Proven Way to Win in Business: Have a Daughter, Hire Women -<br />Get the Upshot in your Inbox<br />Here’s one of the surest routes for men to think of women as equals: Have a daughter.<br />But because the sex of children is random — providing natural experimental<br />and control groups — and because it affected the likelihood of hiring female partners, the study was able to compare the effect of diversity on performance.