AS was bold to break from the girl-power pack and discount the idea of female wisdom as a universal solvent. She was bolder still to point out the value of risk-taking (which is more male) as a necessary complement to risk aversion (more characteristically female) in a banking industry.
I might only part company with AS here: To develop such rules-based systems will require the input of intelligent females as well as intelligent males.
I don't agree that the banking system necessarily requires female—or male—input to run well. It might bump along just fine with a female percentage of .00097, as it had in the past. What is crucial is—as Miss Schlaes points out—that the business be run logically. And the only way that's possible is if it's free from interference by governmental nannies, thugs, and idiots.