[MarkL]

I'm thinking of a stock strategy: sell short on the news of a female CEO being appointed.

You may have a point. Who was the woman CEO at HP before Whitman? I recall she was the one who WRECKED Lucent, which at one time, was Bell Labs!

Mark

[PapaBear3625]

Her name was Carly Fiorina. She's also the one who ran for Senate against Boxer in California (and lost).

New IBM CEO Virginia Rometty looks like she will be a similar disaster.

This is not to say that women cannot be CEOs, just that CEO should not be a job subject to affirmative action, in the sense of somebody saying "it's time we appointed a woman" rather than "who is the best candidate".