Corporate Boards Miss Out When They Don’t Include Women

Research shows that women are more perceptive than men

Shirley Leung, business columnist for The Boston Globe, has written extensively—and frequently—about the dearth of women on corporate boards. In her piece, “Across Health Care Board Rooms, That’s Madam Chairman to You,” she discusses the growing role of women on healthcare boards (nearly one-third of Massachusetts-based hospitals have a woman running the board for the first time), and she compares the trend to the fact that only 3 percent of Fortune 500 companies have female board chairs.

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Eve and / or Adam?

It's high time to think of women as of "subsidiary" resources: certainly they're tasked with jobs like education, healthcare, like as if women were "children of a lesser god". But this doesn't necessarily mean they're less capable than males, on the contrary, in many cases. It seems to me that Mr. "Adam" tries to hide what he feels as weakness with an unnecessary show of power.