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The Yellen-Summers decision: "driven by gender" does not mean what they think it means
It's so telling that men never seem to think that their preference for men in certain positions might have something to do with gender. Apparently, the fact that women make up half the population of the human species and yet men are still in at least 85% of the positions of power in the world is just a reflection of their superiority as individuals
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I don't know if listening to the women on his team would have made a difference, but listening to the Wall Street cabal he did listen to has not served us all that well. If he cares about the economy as much as he says he does, he might want to broaden his horizons.
The fact is that all the reasons the boys club thinks Yellen's personality isn't the right one for the Fed are just wrong. She's a much better match. Summers is a bull in a China shop who doesn't even have the discretion to keep his sexist assumptions about women scientists to himself in a roomful of women scientists. Unless they're willing to get rid of all the women who are involved with the Fed and economic policy, (and hey, maybe that's the plan) putting Summers in there is a recipe for disaster.
Given that both are highly experienced but one is a macho blabbermouth who can't get along with anyone and the other is a thoughtful, deliberate, careful person with a gift for finding consensus, you'd think this wouldn't be a question of gender at all. And the fact that it is, is frankly fairly shocking. Fed chairman is clearly no job for a blunderbuss like Larry Summers. Only an old boy network that simply wants to keep their own in power would even suggest such a thing.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-yellen-summers-decision-driven-by.html
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I don't know if listening to the women on his team would have made a difference, but listening to the Wall Street cabal he did listen to has not served us all that well. If he cares about the economy as much as he says he does, he might want to broaden his horizons.
The fact is that all the reasons the boys club thinks Yellen's personality isn't the right one for the Fed are just wrong. She's a much better match. Summers is a bull in a China shop who doesn't even have the discretion to keep his sexist assumptions about women scientists to himself in a roomful of women scientists. Unless they're willing to get rid of all the women who are involved with the Fed and economic policy, (and hey, maybe that's the plan) putting Summers in there is a recipe for disaster.
Given that both are highly experienced but one is a macho blabbermouth who can't get along with anyone and the other is a thoughtful, deliberate, careful person with a gift for finding consensus, you'd think this wouldn't be a question of gender at all. And the fact that it is, is frankly fairly shocking. Fed chairman is clearly no job for a blunderbuss like Larry Summers. Only an old boy network that simply wants to keep their own in power would even suggest such a thing.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-yellen-summers-decision-driven-by.html
