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Linked by Terry Shannon on Mon 7th Mar 2005 07:48 UTC

With HP's high-flying CEO Carly Fiorina departing, the company's woes are well known. But how did a firm with such a storied history and vast assets get headed down the wrong path, and what do they need to do to set their course straight?

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RE: Female CEO's are poor performers

by Anonymous on Mon 7th Mar 2005 19:33 UTC

>Granted she didn't perform well, but you can't generalize
>this as a "women suck at management"
generalization is valid, for example, how many female CEO's in the fortune 500? isn't it zero right now? women are more comfortable at middle mgt, where things are easier and they can take time out to get their hair done

>Anyone who has taken a psychology of gender course in the
>past 10 years knows that, when it comes down to the nitty
>gritty... men and women do not significantly differ.
please, that's just your childish and wrong interpretation.
women do not take high risk or high stress jobs. cops, firefighters, ceo's, deep sea divers, etc, etc. i doesn't take any insight to acknowledge that fact. just a generalization though

>Although things are becoming more egalitarian, women
>still earn ~75 cents for every dollar that a man makes.
actually, you're wrong. if you adjust for the the amount of hours worked, women actually make MORE per hour. women average less overall because they DO NOT work more hours, not because they have lower pay rates. that's a gov statistic

>when a woman decides she wants to focus on professional
>success in business over raising a family, she immediately
>becomes a "cold bitch". Cuz.. you know, for some reason,
>people think you can't be a family person and a successful
>executive (even though so many men seem to be able to
>balance this).
the fact is that you can't. being a ceo for a company requires massive amounts of time and women simply refuse to put in the time and energy for success. men are perceived as having a balance only because they have full time mom's at home. what man would be a full time stay at home dad to someone like carly? a loser.

>Meg Whitman is CEO of eBay, and I don't hear anyone
>complaining about that company. Cathleen Black is CEO
>of Hearst Magazines....
an exception or two doesn't invalidate the generalization, a majority would though. when will we see that? never.

>Get a clue. Maybe she wasn't right for the job,
>but it's not because she's a woman.
nobody said that. but it's equally as silly to assume that it had no effect, especially given the lopsided divide between male & female ceo's.