Author Topic: Are Women Better at Leading Diverse Countries Than Men?  (Read 447 times)

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Offline Granny

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It's an interesting theory and the evidence shows that it is promising to explore further the differences and outcomes of male vs female leaders, especially in these diverse countries and often developing economies.
 I skimmed through the article but didn't read the whole study, so i'm not going to draw conclusions on the study, other than to say it's an interesting topic worthy of research.
The study is quite a bit more comprehensive than you suggest: 
To test this idea, we studied data from 188 of the 193 United Nations–recognized countries. Our research examined leaders in modern history (1950–2004)

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It's really hard to isolate variables to explain things like economic outcomes, there's so many factors that go into ie: GDP growth, especially in these diverse & complex developing countries.  That's why we have to be extremely careful in making conclusions about correlation vs causation.  The authors acknowledged this distinction to their credit:
Yes, of course. They're scientists.

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You're making broad over-generalizations, and also making causal relationships that aren't proven in the research ...
Yes I did, and I wasn't clear that those were not based on that research, but on my own observations and life  experiences.
And ... we've just seen a classic example in Canada of what a male leader does to women who rebel against his 'crony capitalism'.  Lol