Yabby:"Gender has nothing to do with it. "

It has everything to do with it. If not for feminism, the incompetent women would have no one non-female to blame...

community service for rape, for murder, Houellebecq,
legislatures appoint judges,
peoples elect legislatures.

> there is not a scrap of substantiated evidence
to show that women are better economic managers then men

Yabby, the article cited on post one of this thread argues Icelanders "turned over key levers of finance to women" on evidence men collapsed the global economy.

an Australian solution with provision for women's legislatures turns over key levers of finance to peoples.

Whistler, I see nowhere, where the article provides any evidence for
its claims.

Fact is that Iceland is in a mad panic, as they have gone from
first world to banana republic in one fell swoop. So the blame
game is on.

*an Australian solution with provision for women's legislatures turns over key levers of finance to peoples.*

People decide now. If you vote for a Govt that are economic dummies,
then you share in the blame, no matter which genitals you happen
to own.

for advocates of equity,
yes, there is women's peoples and men's peoples.

So to sum it up Whistler, you have no evidence for your claims,
that is just how you feel. How typically female :)

> I see nowhere, where the article provides any evidence for its claims

Yabby, the article cites the evidence that Iceland has "handed over economic levers to women".

Are you disputing women have been appointed as Prime Minister and heads of two of Iceland's major banks?

Icelanders decided that in the current crisis, women are a better senior management option than more of the same.

You are perfectly entitled to assume this evidence indicates women are worse managers than men, if you have further evidence the population has descended into an abyss of depression and is exhibiting masochistic tendencies, but the article does not.

The perception that women are the best senior management option in the current crisis appears to arise from the view that men take greater risks than women, that high risk male decision-making caused the economic collapse and low risk female decision-making can rescue the economy.

Icelanders have not mandated their solution, they have chosen a management strategy to suit the situation.

Rather than bicker about which is better, Icelanders have selected what they consider is the best option.

As I explained earlier on this thread, "the Islandic solution recognises that women and men manage economies differently".

"the governing principle is that optimum economic management occurs when conducted by agreement between women's and men's legislatures and committees".

That other nations have not handed over economic levers to women in no way diminishes the Icelandic solution, especially in consideration of the extent to which the Icelandic economy has collapsed.

Neither do Icelanders appear to be acting on your advice given earlier on this thread that "they should have stuck to fishing in the first place".

An Australian solution with provision for women's legislatures acknowledges difference by achieving equity between women's and men's risk taking to stabilise economies in perpetuity.

No-one is saying women are inherently better economic managers than men.

What the Icelandic and Australian solutions are saying is that women and men manage economies differently, the Icelandic solution implemented to rescue an economy, the Australian to avoid the need for rescue.