The presence of governors drawn from the full community of parents can often help boost diversity.
The minister for women, Michaelia Cash, said she was determined to "step up" efforts to boost diversity within government appointments.
The day before, the mandarin in charge of boosting diversity in Whitehall labelled its own record "disgraceful".
Civil service recruiters themselves are working to boost diversity: Smith says they have expanded the number of universities they work with and now involve fast streamers in outreach schemes and insight days.
It also suggests that the MoJ should consider introducing "equal merit" provisions for recruiting magistrates to boost diversity – which would allow those from less well-represented backgrounds to be chosen if candidates are of otherwise equal merit.
"It represents a significant step in the wrong direction that will do real and lasting damage to efforts to boost diversity in leadership positions across business, the professions and public life.
While she said she would prefer the industry to make the improvements itself without the regulator stepping in and issuing fines for missing targets, White said Ofcom is looking at proposals to boost diversity as it takes on regulation of the BBC from 3 April next year.
While the debate around the extent to which a female Thor and a black Captain America will boost diversity in comics continues, Gene Yang and Sonny Liew last week released The Shadow Hero, their 176-page book narrating the origins of the first Asian American superhero: The Green Turtle.
In an important study that was published in 2012, "A Better Affirmative Action," Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation who is a big proponent of race-blind measures, pointed to other ways in which states have used them to boost diversity and social mobility.
