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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP...you didn't get the memo. Women are the planners whether we want to be or not. We take on the psychic energy of the family and have to remember everything. Men can handle assignments, but they can't handle the planning of everything. God knows how/why they run most corporations.[/quote]

Men run large corporations and countries because those things require big picture skills and a cooperative effort -- the same skills that allow men to not get offended by the small and imagined slights on which so many of the discussions on this site thrive.  Rare is the woman who can run a large team without it collapsing under petty jealousies and real or imagined backstabbing, all of which is corrosive to large team-building.  On the other hand, women tend to thrive in small team building and organization (the "planners", as you call them).  As you point out, woman can handle "the planning of everything", but when the task requires large scale coordination and cooperation (think Ike planning D-Day) and significant obedience (think of the soldiers storming the beaches), well, then bring in men.  [/quote]

This is so ridiculous it's laughable.  By far the pettiest people I've ever encountered in a workplace have all been men...though I assume this is also because there are just more of them in my line of work.  And if you don't think women, who are by and large the default parents, demonstrate their ability to handle large scale coordination and cooperation you are trying hard no to look at how most of them run their lives.  DH is a good manager/team leader, but I've been the one to come up with the majority of the ideas that have lead to big picture shifts on his team.  I would say that day-to-day (and increasingly IME at work), it is actually the men who struggle with seeing the big picture, or, more to the point, the hundreds of strings that need to be pulled in order to make it happen.[/quote]

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