A French Woman for All Women
June 29, 2011
CHRISTINE LAGARDE, the French finance minister just appointed to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn as head of the International Monetary Fund, told journalist Christiane Amanpour last October, in a remark typical of the Feminine Superiority Complex, that women are more suited to major financial deal-making because they “inject less libido and less testosterone into the equation. … It helps in the sense that we don’t necessarily project our egos into cutting a deal.”
But, wait, isn’t the claim that she has no ego egotistical? NPR reports further on Lagarde, who is the first chief executive goddess in the post and who thus will bring a startlingly new perspective to global finance, a perspective that has nothing to do with self-interest:
Edwin Truman, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, has met Lagarde on several occasions. He says her style is both politically forceful but personally charming and likable.
“She is an aggressive spokesperson for the advancement of women in everything,” he says. “And indeed the truth of the matter is [that] in the economic and financial area, women are for a variety of reasons underrepresented.”
How does one promote the advancement of women in everything? Better yet, how does one do it without showing rank favoritism? And when would the advancement of women in everything achieve its goal?
Something tells me this everything does not include the realm of housewifery. I may be wrong; it’s just a hunch. Let me propose an end point for this project. The campaign for Worldwide Female Advancement must not end until every woman is head of the International Monetary Fund. That’s a fair and modest goal.
— Comments —
Jane, who sent the above link, writes:
Living outside of Chicago, I find it interesting that she names Richard Daley as a friend. The article tells us she was the first female chairman of the law firm Baker & McKenzie, and doesn’t mention that the firm is headquartered Chicago. Hmm.
