Max Sinister said:
Why? Can you prove that? I know some stuff about the differences between men and women and how the brain works, but why do you reason from that that they can't manage large-scale organizations? And what about the female politicians from Hillary Clinton to Maggy Thatcher?
I said "as a group", not that there are no exceptions. There are also men that like to cook.
Women do well as leaders of small organizations and companies, where their suffocating control-freakishness isn't quite as fatal as in larger-scale organizations, and their constant emotional crises and need to cry and hug all the time won't cause all work to grind to a halt.
The simple fact of the matter is, the division of labor was the only possibility for our species - women get pregnant and breast feed, neither of which can be done while out hunting and foraging, so they took care of work close to home, and men took care of the work away from the home. That the disparity between private power (home) and public power (work & politics) became so great is an accident of history. Even so, women in what looks like the most patriarchal of societies often wield a very large amount of power in the ruling classes through their control over private life.
Examples include control over the marriage alliances of 19th c Britain that determined who held public power, and in the Ottoman Empire where the Sultan's mother was either the first, second, or third most powerful person in the empire depending on the period.
That there has never in all of human history been a matriarchy is in my opinion telling. I just don't think women's brains can handle it. Look at academic pursuits: there have been first-class female scholars in every field known to man except mathematics-based fields including math itself and physics. They can't do all the abstract stuff, and that's why they should stay at home an watch Oprah rather than making us report on why we needed to spend 15 minutes in the bathroom or tracking us down at the gym to ask why we aren't at our desks on lunch break, or wear blue so often just to bother them.