Reply #26: Female executives are a recent phenomena in the last [View All]

[Cleita]

century in our corporate boy dominated society. It doesn't mean that women haven't run their own businesses or been important parts of family businesses since Babylon.

Remember Mohammed's first wife was his boss, a widow who took over her husband's caravan business, who was twenty year's older than him and who married him and still ran the business.

Now the little corporate experience that I had in my early twenties back in the sixties showed me that most of the minor female executives we had, slept their way to their rather minor positions. Funny they used to take MBA male graduates right out of school then and give them positions that those poor women had to give out for. But even those ladies would tell you that if you didn't want to be a slave to the typewriter and calculator, you had to put out.

So I have to agree that a gender mix although it seems artificial at first is actually the best approach. If you don't, you end up with those who have always been in power remain in power and those who sleep with them.