A am so hesitant to enter into this, but ...

> On 12 Mar 2017, at 20:53, Ron Teitelbaum <ron@3dicc.com> wrote:
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> ... overall are much better at encouraging people to work together than men I know (including myself).

My experience is different. Women who are truly not constrained by expectations of how women should behave, are just as likely to be introverted, or aggressive, or have any of the other negative (and positive) traits that *all* human beings have. In particular, they do not make better managers by virtue of their sex, nor are they more cooperative.

I suspect you didn't mean it this way, but it's a form of sexism to portray women as somehow intrinsically superior in some 'warm and fuzzy' way, as though those 'soft' skills are somehow biological. In a truly equal society, that would be as much of a stereotype is the idea that women just aren't nerdy or techie. Women can be bitchy, manipulative, corrupt etc etc, as you would expect from any human being. IMO it is also important not to fall into the error of 'the virtue of the oppressed' (as long as there is oppression).

Yes, we absolutely should have a level of participation that reflects the surrounding social distribution, but not because it will make things any 'better', but more that any representational inequality indicates yjay some form of systemic discrimination or disincentive is at work.

Antony Blakey
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