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"...diversity initiatives, no matter how well-conceived, are destined to fail if belief in the value of diversity is absent. And belief must emanate from the top."

This reveals the fundamental flaw in Wolfe's philosophy. She believes that diversity is a good itself. It is not.

The true 'good' is equality of opportunity. Diversity is, at best, evidence of that good. The fact of a diverse organisation indicates (potentially) that said organisation is picking the best individuals for the job, irrespective of gender/race/sexuality, etc.

Of course, engineering diversity by deliberately picking people based on gender/race/sexuality misses the point completely.

Finally, beware of what you unleash when you impose quotas. For example, one statistic Wolfe rather skated over was the fact that women now account for nearly two thirds of all solicitors. That sounds rather unequal to me? Does Wolfe therefore support quotas to bring that number down to 50%? If not, why not.

Similarly, Wolfe complains that white people make up 79% of the population, apparently unaware that at the time of the last census, white people made up 87% of the population. Shall we therefore impose quotas to cure the objective under-representation of white people in the profession?