Women present, but the power lies in the hands of the men
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced yesterday that he will appoint at least three women to his cabinet. According to Agence France Presse, Fatemeh Ajorlou will be appointed as social welfare minister, Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi as health minister, and a third currently unidentified woman will be appointed to a third minister position. If approved, these appointees will be the first women cabinet ministers since Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Both Ajorlou and Dastjerdi are reportedly hardline conservatives, supporting enforcement of Islamic dress codes for women and proposing gender segregated healthcare, respectively, according to the BBC.Ahmadinejad was sworn in to his second term in office August 5, following widespread massive protests both in Iran and internationally after June’s disputed presidential election. Women played a major role in the public uprising that followed the election and were particularly visible during the election campaigns.
Do “female bosses tend to be better managers, better advisers, mentors, rational thinkers”?
That is the view of Carol Smith, the senior vice president and chief brand officer for the Elle Group, expressed in a short interview published inside The Times’s business section a week ago Sunday. Ms. Smith also said that male bosses “love to hear themselves talk” and that in some previous jobs she purposely arrived late to meetings so she could miss the men’s conversations about golf and football. http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/do-women-make-better-bosses/
