Anthropologist Lionel Tiger says,
in general I think it’s the case that females don’t go for that kind of money because they don’t want to.
I have said on a number of occasions that if someone put me in charge of systemic risk in the financial system, my policy would be to change the gender of bank CEO’s. That is not Tiger’s policy, however.
READER COMMENTS
Steve Waldman
Aug 23 2010 at 3:28pm
are you proposing a change in personnel, or surgical intervention?
razib
Aug 23 2010 at 3:30pm
apparently a manager at SAC Capital was making his quants take estrogen a few years back.
Alanna
Aug 23 2010 at 4:15pm
Our Superintendent of Financial Institutions here in Canada is Julie Dickson. Coincidence, perhaps, but I like to think of it as a step in the right direction.
Brian Clendinen
Aug 23 2010 at 4:25pm
I totally agree, there of couse are exceptions with woman but I think as a policy that would be good idea, Wall Street should also be dominated by woman CFA’s. I also happen to think the same for Primary education but have men in charge in the classrooms.
Yancey Ward
Aug 23 2010 at 7:46pm
Easier to marry a bank executive anyway.
Rchard
Aug 24 2010 at 11:52am
Change their gender, or change their sex? And no, I’m not just being persnickety. The comments from Steve Waldman and razib get at the same distinction.
Nobody Special
Aug 24 2010 at 12:26pm
“my policy would be to change the gender of bank CEO’s.”
Then your would make matters worse. The women who are in line for those positions are at least as aggressive and risk-taking as the men.
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