Wednesday, December 21, 2016

shocked or not shocked

"Would it shock you to learn that about a week after Mayer’s headline-grabbing corporate policy shift, the chief executive of Best Buy, Hubert Joly, made the same change? And that it attracted only a fraction of the attention? Although one can argue about the merits of telecommuting, the ­responses to the two executive orders were telling. “For making the same judgment call,” Huston writes, “a male C.E.O. drew some sidelong glances for a few months, but a female C.E.O. drew extensive scrutiny and censure for years.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/books/review/how-women-decide-by-therese-huston.html?_r=0

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