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José Henrique Lamensdorf wrote:

Finally, for those who imagine a paunchy spinster wearing a military uniform and roaring orders over a microphone, no! Envision an ever-pleasant Cameron Diaz-type with a husband, a son, and a life; that's more like her.

philgoddard wrote:



I'm so glad for you. I do hate working for anyone who doesn't bear a close resemblance to a Hollywood actor.

Rachel Waddington wrote:

So you are equating unmarried women with no children (and less-than-perfect figures) with an unpleasant, militaristic way of working?

José Henrique Lamensdorf wrote:



I am saying that women aspiring at management don't have to give up on glamour, having a family, a life, whatever, unless they deliberately prefer to.

A snippet from my life history between marriages. By coincidence, once I dated three psychologists in a row. A close friend of mine, a professor in Psychology (one of these three had been a student of hers), she told me to stop dating psychologists, "They are all crazy, starting with me! Try one from the math sciences for a change." So my next was a Chemistry teacher, pulchritude not being among her high scores, who taught me that women are multitasking, while men are not. She said that she could stir food cooking on the stove with her left hand, score her students' tests with her right one, and still chat with her friends on the speakerphone, all at the same time. I reckon no man could do this.

So there is no reason for men to project a military male stereotype upon a multitasking woman. Men usually must focus on one thing at a time. My wife often overlooks that.

This is what I meant. Women know that; men often forget that women are multitasking.

Gabriele Demuth wrote:

I still don't understand how this explains your negative description of unmarried women and your assumption that good looking women are happy, but incapable - men are not mentioned.