<p dir="ltr">Or to just have a pool of five members, standard practice. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 18, 2016 1:12 PM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net">suresh@hserus.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I am entirely not disputing the need for diversity - but for a large international conference, given the potential number of religions, gender identifications etc we would be looking at an infinitely large committee.<div><br></div><div>Of course having a trusted mediator on hand - who may be closer to your tradition - may be a possible way forward in this respect.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div>suresh</div><div> <br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 18-Mar-2016, at 1:05 PM, Padmini <<a href="mailto:pdmnbaruah@gmail.com" target="_blank">pdmnbaruah@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">> 3. While I am all for diversity - I would not say that a committee lacks standing to investigate such an issue just because of its lack of diversity. Sexual harassment is condemnable - and in its various degrees, criminal, the world over, so that there are very few “cultural” justifications to it. </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">The only problem is , as a woman from a traditional family, speaking up about this issue itself is hard. To have to talk about it to two white men is difficult into itself. Hence the need for diversity.</p></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div>