Yes, Helmsley. Maybe Carly who ran Hewlett-Packard into the dirt. Err, the woman who rules Ebay, destroying the utility of the service by higher fees, penalties, refusal to address fraud. Scum all. There’s Hillary Clinton who, with a half-smile, repeatedly promised to devastate the people of Iran if there was a military exchange with the Israelis.

How are female CEO’s any better than their male counterparts?  Author Cocco has a fixation with gender.

As I read the variety of inputs to this article, I am amazed at the complete void of reasoning to your premises and the utter ignorance or disdain for the dialectic inference of your position.

Do your readers really believe that it’s the natural order of the cosmos, Devine intervention, or just a random walk down the street that produced these unbalanced results, whereas, the leadership of failing corporations and the expertise to right them, is vested predominantly in white males, that is silly? The system is not egalitarian, was never intended to be, and is unlikely to change anytime in the near future.

It’s a zero sum game folk and the outcome is fixed!

I guess one could say that Martha Stewart (who attempted to bilk her share holders) and Leona Helmsley (who attempted to redistribute the wealth…up) fit in to the sleezy executive mem’s club. I remember back in the Sixties when Ann Southern was caught owning some of the worst slums in New York City. We have the whole Patrica Dunn /Carly Fiorina mess at Hewlett Packard proving that women vying for power can be as dirty as men in their business dealings. There’s Hill-the-business-shill Clinton who is about the most cut-throat person I’ve ever witnessed… regardless of Gender.

No, no Car Companies have female CEO’s. BUT maybe that’s because women are too smart to climb aboard a sinking vessel!

Ok before you linch me up for my man views hear me out…

Diversity is a good thing that is not leveraged to the optimum level.

Women play by the status Quot rules that are set by the establishment (85%) men.

they feel they have to, to succeed and fit in to get ahead.

But this end up leaving true talent untapped and everybody suffers in the end as from a institution or corporation to society loses as a whole.

Will the 85% accept and encourage women using their different skills in a wholesale fashion?

We all know that is a 100% no, but you will find at least of a third embracing it,and add the other 15% and some education and a critical mass of a majority mindset is very likely.

How many women are in washington in the secret rooms and meetings figuring out who gets our 2.2 trillion tax payer obligated debt and counting?

All the extra conections in a womens brain allows them to think more equtably I argue.

When the dust settles next year and we see where our money went we mat well wish we had more equitables in the room, women or men.

Is there even one?

Does it come close to 15%?

No, it’s a brunette and salt n’ pepper hair meltdown - and some balding. Name a blond executive who was forced to go before Congress, explaining why…
It’s really a shame when a looming deadline and a blank page drive a good mind to this brand of silliness; pinning the whole issue to a statistic in a poll.

Or is this a light version of the feminist myopy that had disappointed rabid Clintonistas foaming for McCain against all reason?

I feel for women who see the goal so close it drives them to stumble through the last steps of sound reason and grasp at thin connections. But our thin connections are no more or less unproductive than theirs.

Will keeping gay couples from adopting children save America from some kind of degredation? No. Just as parity in the executive ranks would not have made the smallest difference to the current economic crisis.

Our sound reason is something that can be examined by all and be found to be trustable, and so, might win some adherents from the other side - a gain for the cause - another step towards the goal.

And our unsound reason - and extremes, will be seen for what it is and cause us to be not trusted - and then we don’t get what we want.

Look at the numbers of two-faced Republican women currently throughout our government equally responsible for its failure.

Did you miss Condi-ssembler Rice singing her 9/11 song again recently?

Wasn’t it a woman reported to be systematically damaging the Endangered Species process for the past four or eight years?

What about that oil industry puppet from Alaska masquerading as a legitimate politician?

And there are many others. Cherry-pick Leona Helmsely to make a point? What of the Republican strategy of grooming minorities and women to lie their lies for them? It’s been going on for a couple of decades. I’ll match your Leona Helmsely and see you an Elizabeth Dole.

You can’t have it two ways. You can’t insist women are equal to men, then suggest anything different.

Women are equal to men.<period

Swamp the Fortune 500 with women and watch how many become insulated, power-hungry capitalist pigs in jets flying over the workers they just gouged - just like men.

Return to Condi Rice here. Who had the same teacher and education and intelligence as Madeline Albright?

One was a model of foreign policy professionalism, unwavering, dedicated to standards.

The other, threw over her education and common sense to follow a Texan fool who couldn’t string five words together - and proceeded to violate a host of the most elemental historical and political rules (any idiot who’s skimmed through Sun Tzu’s The Art of War for a half hour would have known better that to invade Iraq) for a Neocon scheme that caused who knows how many deaths.

Pardon me madame,

No asians, Latinos, and certainly no African americans have been sighted, one would almost get the idea that we’re in time wrap to the 1950’s and beyond. A time when only white men rule the earth, as birth right. I do declare, the eastern and western universities do produce all the talent, witness the number of screw-ups and the keystone cop solutions that are being offered up.

That random birth entitlement thing, white and male, someone, please pass the male enhancement pills!