India: Women may have prevented recession: Study

Submitted by anthony on Sun, 2009-01-04 09:11

Article here. Excerpt:

'An interesting study has now said that the roots may lie in the basic differences between men and women.

Last year's hall of shame are leaders that just couldn't stand up to the downturn. They all made mistakes, they all suffered setbacks and they are all men.

In fact, a recent study by Cambridge University has suggested that if there were more women in top power positions, the global financial crisis would have been significantly diminished.

So would that hold true for the economic downturn in India too? Powerful women who lead the pack seem to think so.

"Thinking things through, being authentic, ready to get your hands dirty and get down to the frontline yourself, being nurturing and supportive, these are traditionally a woman's traits but they rise to the fore in a crisis situation," said Dr Gita Piramal, author, Managing Radical Change.

Last year saw a series of problems that signalled a lack of people sensitivity, a tendency to shoot from the hip and not take into consideration the views of others - mistakes less likely to be made by women.'

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They could also have rewritten the laws of mathematics and supply and demand, too. Then everything would have been just fine.

"Salvation is in women!": The 21st Century's motto.

This is gonna be a long ride.

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2009-01-04 21:31

tootin' their own horn so much.

i'd say that all the inventions, scientific discoveries
and business successes women have had w/o the need for special laws,
like affirmative action and such, says it all.

actually it is so stupid to act like they are all better at
everything than men as to be funny. maybe that's where they
need to advertise their talents, the Funny Papers.

they are the new joke. just too "smart" to see it.
what women are good at is getting men to hand over everything
and then act like they earned it.

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Submitted by daveinga on Mon, 2009-01-05 00:12

...yell "prove it!".

This kind of empty, self-serving, idiotic prattle about theoretical this and possible that is the only way feminists know how to speak, because no woman has EVER stepped up to the plate and done any better than men have at running the show, and the feminists know it better than anyone else.

Thatcher? Gandhi? Bhutto? Aquino? Are you going to try and tell me that theirs weren't the same error and violence-prone governments as those of the men who ruled those countries before them?

What utter nonsense.

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Submitted by RandomMan on Mon, 2009-01-05 00:34

I think western feminists are just too tame.
Look at the feminists from India.They have no qualms of making womens only laws.

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Submitted by bharati on Mon, 2009-01-05 10:32