Let's take Greg in good faith and suppose he wants a meritocracy, where gender isn't considered.
So each position has a 50% chance of being filled by a woman. (1/N)
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In reply to @christianp
The council cabinet has 10 members. "Balance" would be 5 men and 5 women (assuming a gender binary...)
What are the chances of exactly that happening in a meritocracy? Just under 25%. Far from odds on! (wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10+tr…)
In reply to @christianp
The chance of having 7 or more women is just over 17%. (wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10+tr…)
So even if there was no gender bias, you'd expect 1 in 6 councils in the country to look this imbalanced (or 1 in 3 if you include imbalance the other way, with 7 or more men)
In reply to @christianp
Of course, there is widespread gender bias, in favour of men, so this cherry-picking is either ignorant or dishonest. It's certainly not evidence that there's a problem of too many women.
You can make just about any stat you like with a small enough sample.