A Solid, Logical Reason It's Time to See More Female CEOs

[NashVegas]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7108347.stm

On receiving a paypacket, how good a man feels depends on how much his colleague earns in comparison, scientists say.

Scans reveal that being paid more than a co-worker stimulates the "reward centre" in the male brain.
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In the study, 38 pairs of male volunteers were asked to perform the same simple task simultaneously, and promised payment for success.

Both "players" were asked to estimate the number of dots appearing on a screen. Providing the right answer earned a real financial reward between 30 (£22) and 120 (£86) euros. Each of the participants was told how their partners had performed and how much they were paid.
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A wrong answer, and no payment, resulted in a reduction in blood flow to the "reward region". But the area "lit up" when volunteers earned money, and interestingly showed far more activity if a player received more than his partner.

Now, here's a story from my local news:

http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071130/BUSINESS01/71130002

The Tennessee Valley Authority is giving its CEO a $1 million pay raise to keep pace with executive pay packages in the private sector.
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Consultants Watson Wyatt & Co. recommended an $800,000 base salary and a total package worth $2.9 million, based on comparable investor-owned utilities that pay their chief executive officers up to $5.9 million a year.

And there's the old adage of how the average CEO earns some 364 times more than the average salaried person in their company.

Need I connect the dots?

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

1. Not so black and white

and not so logical. Not all males are motivated by cashgrabbing, just as not all males are motivated by boobs.

And the CEO of my company is a fascist asshat whose salary (when SHE was brought onboard) reduced staff profit shares from a nice extra paycheck to a post-Holidays pittance.

Assholes come in all shapes, sizes and genders. So do people who are motivated by truth, beauty and wisdom.

[HughBeaumont]

2. Carly Fiorina.

Last I checked, gender doesn't prevent a CEO from being a greedy assvacuum. Her idea of great management was to fire everyone, spent more to stay in the same place, and to top it off received 21 million dollars among other exit perks for her underperformance.

[Echo In Light]

3. I agree with feminisms basic tenets, which is why...

I disagree that the most a woman can aspire to {within the prevailing ideological framework} is assimilating to man's most loathsome traits and characteristics in hopes of playing a more predatory role within the corporate pathology.

[Igel]

4. Not so logical, not so solid.

You seem to assume that since men are like this, women aren't. And that's not on the basis of empirical evidence, but logic.

Reduced to formula: X --> Y ==> NOT X --> NOT Y is, well, simply false. "Human --> mortal ==> NOT human --> NOT mortal" shows this clearly enough, unless we suddenly claim all sparrows and zebras are immortal. QED.

In other words, showing that men have this property of liking to be rewarded more than their peers has no bearing on whether or not women don't have this property. For that, you need empirical evidence--showing that only men are like this is equivalent to showing that women aren't like this, but in practice that means demonstrating empirically that women aren't like this (so the logic is beside the boards).

[Lilith Velkor]

5. No need, I see the sexism of your premise quite clearly

I always thought you were more intelligent than that. Perhaps this is a bit tongue-in-cheek?

[NashVegas]

6. Somewhat Tongue In Cheek

Although, I must say I find the response to the thread quite fascinating.

We have a genuine problem with overpaid CEOs. We have companies that need to attract qualified talent. We have a scientific study that shows men get off on knowing they are making more than the next guy. While we don't have a corresponding study for women, does your own experience or anecdotal knowledge follow a parallel?

[Lilith Velkor]

7. Hell no.

Women can be just as greedy and vicious as men, we just get fewer opportunities to do so because of institutionalized sexism.