michael perelman <[email protected]> wrote: > Reading today's New York Times story about Sheila Bair made me realize that > she even better than what I had thought. The article also mentioned > Brooksley Borne. Elizabeth Warren also came to mind. In the dismal > cabinet, only Hilda Solis does not seem to have jumped on the neoliberal > bandwagon. I try to think of men who played a comparable role, but nobody > came to mind. Then again, perhaps, these women performed so well because > just they were not part of the "old boys club."
alas, as soon as the "glass ceiling" is broken and the old boy's club is totally integrated, I'm afraid that such women will no longer have the outsider's point of view and thus avoid group-think. Also, the head of the dept. of Labor (Solis) usually has to respond, to some degree, to labor's stated interests, and is usually a person seen as able to do so. A major exception, of course, was Elaine Chao. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
