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[quote=Anonymous]I re read the original Fortune article in th OP which now has a retraction.

I think she had an amazing vision but she should have stayed in school to understand the science well enough to realize what the limitations of her vision were and determine whether there were plausible solutions. It's like she had a dream of going to the moon without understanding that we need oxygen to breathe. She was given a message that girls can do anything - that being successful for women means pushing through the barriers posed by a society that favours success in males.

I think there are two messages to send to kids - stay in school and never lie because it will eventually catch up with you.

In the end being female might have done her in - she enlisted exclusively the support of old white men on her board who probably saw her as their grand daughter. None of them questioned her, challengd her, they just wanted to spoil her the way grandparents do. Had she been male, the Fortune reporter who originally told her story would have pushed her to clarify the vague responses she was giving. He handled her with kid gloves as did everyone else. [/quote]

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