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Re:Companies With More Women Board Directors Experience High... by imsteve on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @12:17PM (#62625)
counter-theory:

Having higher performance (or brighter outlook) allows companies to take on weaker performing women.

--yes that guess is politically incorrect

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Re:Companies With More Women Board Directors Experience High... by liz on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @03:44PM (#62736)
If the woman were weaker, then performance would not have improved after taking them on as board directors, as this report shows conclusively.
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Re:Companies With More Women Board Directors Experience High... by imsteve on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @03:50PM (#62741)
None of us have the stats to prove anything conclusively.

And this is the problem. If the article is going to make such big claims with such small evidence, then it seems worth evaluating some more obvious solutions first.

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