[marktwain]

My experience is that management was always searching for talented women. They were hired and promoted faster than men. Most of them did a decent job, but they were preferred in order to meet the affirmative action goals, or at least keep the dogs at bay.

[tom paine 2]

One of the senor executives at a small company that I own bitched about how she wanted to be an owner. When we offered to sell her shares in the company the risks were too great for her and she declined. I hope she stops bitching now.

[major_gaff]

That is how it was in Bell Labs when I was there back in the 90's...any
staff engineer with ovaries and heartbeat had a 'rocket tied to her
posterior' as my section chief used to say...and once some, not all, got into
a position of authority, they became world class beyotches, most likely
because they thought, wrongly IMO, was the only way they would garner
respect from their male colleagues.