Economic blame game targets men

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2009-01-06 23:23

Article here. Excerpt:

'"All of the recent perpetrators of the greatest economic mess in eight decades are, well, men," writes Deborah Spar in the Washington Post.

The aptly named Spar, president of Barnard College, deploys a variety of arguments to back up this broad claim, including male hormonal imbalance (testosterone has been scientifically linked with risky stock trading) and evidence that women tend to be more risk-averse than men, especially when high-stake finances are concerned. Add to that the grim facts of female employment in finance, where no women held chief executive positions as recently as last year, and the evidence against men becomes circumstantially compelling.
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Yes, sure, a woman blew the whistle on Enron. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Mary Schapiro headed an agency that extensively investigated Bernard Madoff, but failed to uncover his vast Ponzi scheme.

Thus far, her hormone levels have not been analyzed.'

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"All of the recent perpetrators of the greatest economic mess in eight decades are, well, men,"

Even if you just decide to take this argument at face value, then; by her own logic men are also responsible for all of the economic progress during the last eight decades. By any historical measure the economic progress that we've had during the past 80 years is nothing short of spectacular, even when you take into account the rough time we're having right now.

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Submitted by insdel2005 on Wed, 2009-01-07 20:26