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Why do people continually upvote trash from forbes.com? If you want a concrete example of a woman that blows away men in the criteria that the author chose, co
by niggler 14y ago
Why do people continually upvote trash from forbes.com?
If you want a concrete example of a woman that blows away men in the criteria that the author chose, consider Margaret Thatcher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher)
- nailer 14y agoIn order to paint a picture one must occasionally use the odd broad brush stroke. Identifying common traits of a group, if those those traits are correctly identified, doesn't conflict with the possibility than not all members of a group may have those traits. We on HN commonly discuss eg, the entrepreneurial culture of the US vs other countries. I don't see this as being significantly different.
- csharpminor 14y agoThis article consisted of three very broad, virtually meaningless brushstrokes. I'm not opposed to articles that aren't "PC" but seriously, if you're going to make these types of claims based on "fifteen years of experience", you need to go into much more depth and tie into secondary sources.
- run4yourlives 14y agoThe reason Thatcher was so successful though is that she worked like a man. You don't earn the "Iron Lady" nickname for being the one to talk to around the water cooler. That said, although I like the sentiment it was a pretty rubbish article, if you could even call it that. It's also quite clear that gender has little to do with it aside from the likelihood of a particular gender to have the more positive traits in question.
- illuminate 14y ago"The reason Thatcher was so successful though is that she worked like a man." Spoken from someone with a limited imagination and adherence to gender-based stereotypes.