UK: If women ruled the world...

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'Harriet Harman suggested last week that she might use her proposed Equalities Bill to get more women into positions of power in Britain's banks. The Bill will allow employers to practise "positive action", by choosing a female candidate over an equally well-qualified male. Since this is something that everyone is free to do already, without explicitly saying so, it sounds to me like legislation of the status quo. Feel free to employ a woman – or not, if you prefer.
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Women are not chaste vessels of virtue, in matters of money or anything else. You only need to be one to know that. We may lack the testosterone surges that make little boys delight in smashing each other with sticks, but we are born – and remain – every bit as competitive, cruel and egotistical as them.

The myth that women are the less aggressive sex is disproved every day, in ordinary social intercourse. Introduce a room full of men to each other and they will quickly find a common interest – usually sport – around which to bond. Introduce a room full of women and they will circle round each other like hungry lionesses, trying to decide who should be admitted to the pride and who should be eaten for dinner.'