Someone at the Wall Street Journal Should Not Be Saying Something This Dumb
This is from an e-mail I got overnight about what would be in the Journal today:
BUSINESS, By Alan Murray
Given that there are so few women on the top rungs of the corporate ladder, H-P’s booting of Fiorina and Dunn makes one wonder whether gender had something to do with it.
I know not to bother reading it (UPDATE: If you want to suffer through the subscription-only column, it’s here). If this is what they will typically get from this point on, the Journal know better than to let Murray continue to bother writing for them.
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UPDATE (noon): Don Luskin wonders if Dunn’s ascension on H-P’s board isn’t really an affirmative action disaster:
Why wouldn’t Murray wonder whether gender had anything to do with why Pattie Dunn was invited to join the board of H-P in the first place? She had no appropriate experience or qualifications whatsoever — except that she was female, at a time when corporate boards were desperate to add women to their ranks.
Good point.
Alan Murray generally says some really stupid things about whatever the issue of the day is. I’m going to read it, because I need to see what kind of stupid things business people are going to be talking about, especially as I’m a woman and will likely have to deal with this crap if I ever make it beyond the level of cubicle peon.
Comment by meep — October 12, 2006 @ 7:41 am