Paul Keating and Bob Hawke in the same line as, Gandhi, Confucius.

Research shows that there is higher percentage of psychopaths in positions of CEO.

At least it's not a layer of thick men...

What about our PM. A more intelligent woman you would not find any where. Certainly knows her business, inside out.

579 gets the crown for sarcasm. Magaret Thatcher stands out as a great woman leader. The ones who get jobs through quota systems really do bring the standard down. Just look at the Victorian Police force over the last few years. Never before have we had such an incompetent Government. More blood on their hands overnight for inviting the boats. How callous can a Government be? In actual fact mothers who have sacrificed themselves for their children are the true heroes.

The problem is that there is only so much room at the top. To be a leader, women have to not just aspire to be leaders, they have to want it more than everyone else and be willing to work harder for it than everyone else. The same goes for men - maybe only "strong/manly" women get into leadership positions, but only strong men get into leadership positions too. If you are weak, you won't make it to the top of a very competitive world.

The "thick wall of men" is not some male conspiracy forcing women down, it is a whole group of other people, all of whom also want the top job. The way for women such as the author to create more female leaders is not to sit and complain about how there aren't enough female leaders; it is to start pulling 18-hour days working in a high-powered sector and making friends with everyone who matters so that she can eventually get the top job. That's what all the male leaders did, and gender quotas won't change that requirement.

The article was going along quite well until it hit page 3 and I realised it was just another "it's all the men's fault" rant. I thought it was going to be an article on women taking responsibility and cultivating themselves so they can be in positions of leadership, but no, it was really about "we need to fix the men."

As NQD has made reference to, becoming a leader requires strength, courage, and determination, and this will always be the case. There isn't a conspiracy stopping women from leading, the problem is that there are too many weak-willed women who cannot embody the characteristics required. "Fixing men" is really a sneaky way of claiming "I don't want to embody the traits required to lead, I just want to be a leader."