Denial
I know what weather.com has to say about the chance of snow/rain and the high/low temperatures for the next 10 days. However, I prefer to live in denial. Any day now-- blue skies and sunshine.
2005-03-02
Zombified butts and gender differences
My butt is numb, and I feel like a zombie. I really want this day to be over. Yesterday was exhausting but interesting. Today is just deadly dull. I have a day off planned for later this month, but I don’t know if I can take it that long. I really want a vacation.
On a totally unrelated note, I’ve been noticing that the furor has not died down over remarks about gender differences made by the president of Harvard. There was an interesting bit of analysis at salon.com today. Here’s an excerpt:
March 2, 2005 | Others besides me have noticed that most whistle-blowers of late have been women -- former Enron vice president Sherron Watkins, retired FBI agent Coleen Rowley and former WorldCom audit executive Cynthia Cooper. To underscore the point, Time made these three its Persons of the Year in 2002. Recently, HealthSouth financial executive Diana Henze joined the ranks of female whistle-blowers.
"Women see things in a much bigger context than do men," says Judith Rosener, a professor at the University of California at Irvine. In "Ways Women Lead," a 2002 Harvard Business School e-book, Rosener proclaims that a woman's way of leading -- interactive, cooperative, inclusive and personal -- is profoundly different from the traditional male way of leading, which she calls "command and control." She goes on to say that women consider the larger implications of their actions when making a business decision, while men focus on the immediate: that is, how much money they're going to make, or whether they're likely to get caught.
Rosener's statements barely caused a ripple, and women generally nodded in agreement. In contrast, all hell broke loose when Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard, said that one reason women don't ascend to the highest positions in science might be due to the "intrinsic aptitude" of men in this area. Incidentally, Summers also listed old-fashioned gender discrimination and the lower likelihood that women will take jobs requiring incredibly long hours as other reasons women do not get the top jobs in the sciences, which has been largely overlooked in the firestorm following his comments.
On a totally unrelated note, I’ve been noticing that the furor has not died down over remarks about gender differences made by the president of Harvard. There was an interesting bit of analysis at salon.com today. Here’s an excerpt:
March 2, 2005 | Others besides me have noticed that most whistle-blowers of late have been women -- former Enron vice president Sherron Watkins, retired FBI agent Coleen Rowley and former WorldCom audit executive Cynthia Cooper. To underscore the point, Time made these three its Persons of the Year in 2002. Recently, HealthSouth financial executive Diana Henze joined the ranks of female whistle-blowers.
"Women see things in a much bigger context than do men," says Judith Rosener, a professor at the University of California at Irvine. In "Ways Women Lead," a 2002 Harvard Business School e-book, Rosener proclaims that a woman's way of leading -- interactive, cooperative, inclusive and personal -- is profoundly different from the traditional male way of leading, which she calls "command and control." She goes on to say that women consider the larger implications of their actions when making a business decision, while men focus on the immediate: that is, how much money they're going to make, or whether they're likely to get caught.
Rosener's statements barely caused a ripple, and women generally nodded in agreement. In contrast, all hell broke loose when Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard, said that one reason women don't ascend to the highest positions in science might be due to the "intrinsic aptitude" of men in this area. Incidentally, Summers also listed old-fashioned gender discrimination and the lower likelihood that women will take jobs requiring incredibly long hours as other reasons women do not get the top jobs in the sciences, which has been largely overlooked in the firestorm following his comments.
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