Friday, July 22, 2005

A Note to Larry Summers

Larry,

It's okay to suggest that women have different aptitudes than men, as long as those aptitudes are superior:
Chris Clarke, the America-based CEO of Boyden, a firm of headhunters, and a visiting professor at Henley Management College in England, argues that women are superior to men at multi-tasking, team-building and communicating, which have become the essential skills for running a 21st-century corporation. Maria Wisniewska, who headed a Polish bank, Bank Pekao, and is an international adviser to the Conference Board, says: “The links between the rational and emotional parts of the brain are greater in women than in men. If so, and if leadership is about making links between emotion and intelligence, then maybe women are better at it than men.”
Read the whole thing, and weep.

Regards,
LC

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