John Linton
......Why is thinking something women never do? And why is logic never even tried? Straightening up their hair is all they ever do. Why don't they straighten up the mess that's inside? (Alan Jay Lerner - 1964)
I suppose you need to be Rex Harrison to enunciate those words in a way that won't cause you bodily harm these days. I was reminded of those lyrics while I read a blog on the lack of females in CEO positions in Australia earlier this morning:
http://blogs.smh.com.au/business/executivestyle/innovator/archives/2008/09/men_or_women_is.html
together with the cited "research."
I am constantly surprised at such views as the reasons that females don't hold more top commercial jobs anywhere in the world is, and always has been blindingly obvious; that relatively few educated, able and talented females pursue a commercial career. I have no 'statistics' or 'research' but observationally EVERY female in those combined categories that I have ever met either ceases her 'professional' career completely or interrupts it for large amounts of time in the key period of all careers (late 20s through mid 30s) to have children and then find much greater satisfaction in being with her children than messing about in endless meetings and pointless 'excursions' in business life.
So, every so often, some 'feminist' will cholerically declaim that "women aren't well regarded" or some other such nonsense and go on to make the same idiotic comments this article does citing spurious 'surveys' as if the points they were trying to make had some validity or importance.
Given the choice of having a totally fulfilled life or slogging yourself towards early ill health and death (no comment ever appears in these sorts of articles about how females live much longer than males in all Western countries) the majority of intelligent females opt for the much better life of motherhood as a career rather than any commercial endeavour - clearly a much more enjoyable and fulfilling vocation.
So, if you simpy consider that 90% (or whatever percentage you are personally happy with) of that talented part of femalehood does in fact do that it seems that the remainder are OVER REPRESENTED in terms of percentages. It could equally be said that its only because so many talented females choose not to bother working themselves to an early grave doing pointless things that so many extra males get to do that in their place.
All that statistic means is that it's further proof that females are far smarter than males and choose to be "ladies of leisure" by marrying some poor dope who works himself to death providing for her every material need/whim while she has a great life with her children and her friends 24 x 7.
I have always been bewildered by the 'feminists' (not the suffragettes as they had a valid point in some senses) but the 'equality demanding' versions I grew up with in the 1960s and 1970s. As the only insightful person on this subject at the time was quoted (I'm almost certainly not quoting correctly) as saying:
"Why are these women demanding equality? Why would they wish to give up their position of superiority they've enjoyed since Adam delved and Eve span?"
Females have never had to die fighting in overseas wars, mine collapses, formula one racing or any of the more mindless pursuits of males, not because they couldn't, but because they made very sure they used their superior intellects and manipulative skills to have themselves excluded from such pointless idiocies.
Similarly, they have never involved themselves in the mindless pursuit of 'power' by proxy (becoming a workaholic executive) as they have always known they control the idiot who does that (ever heard of an unmarried CEO?) and meekly turns over the 'fruits of their labour' to the love of his life.
Personally, after about 1975, I regarded the 'feminists' demand for 'equality as a cynical way of underlining just how dominant females were and a cynically manipulative exercise in deepening the 'guilt trips' of all males to ensure they never understood how they were and always had been the 'second rate' gender designed for the sole purpose of giving up their lives to provide for the female who had selected them for that task.