Trivial Pursuit.

Did you know...
former NYT executive editor Jill Abramson is the sister to Jane O'Connor, who wrote the Fancy Nancy story books for young girlie-girl readers. 

Interesting.

(Also:  Nina, Nina, Ballerina was hers too. )
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Another interesting nugget:
Abramson attended Harvard University back when it was still gender segregated, graduating in 1976.  The undergraduate college became coeducational after its 1977 merger with Radcliffe College.

I still say, there is a distinct generational difference in gender attitudes between the men and women who came up before Title 9, and those who came after, expecting to compete fairly with each other in the classrooms, and playing many of the same ball games in their early schooldays on the exact same playing fields and courts.

Perhaps people who believe that women will never get equal treatment as men in the workplaces and professions are self-fulfilling their reduced expectations?  Also, once you get into the half-million dollar annual compensation neighborhood, don't you lose the support of many working women when you complain (or worse, your doctor-daughter complains) that you got paid too little because you were a woman?

Cornelia ‏@CorneliaLG May 17

A woman hiring another smart woman is called being the Boss. Being paid less than male counterparts is sexist. Where's the confusion?

Cornelia Griggs. “Big thank you to all the #pushy #bossy #polarizing women and men who get it,” Dr. Griggs wrote. “The story isn’t over, not even close.”

I'm a competent woman, creative too, but I don't have the muscle to push my way to the top.  Funny, I think more women would benefit if we weren't judged so much on how pushy, bossy or aggressively ambitious we could be, but on how well we perform the tasks at hand, in even the top jobs.
 
We see in the new media,
the ones muscling their way up are definitely ambitious and self-confident.  But... what of the naturally quieter people, with solid skills, who simply do not want to play a loud and pushy game?  Sometimes, the top reporters and writers too, operate best as natural observers and questioners.  They'll never outshout you, or outshine you even, but they know their role, quietly playing by the unwritten rules and getting the job done.

To me, the system of network advancing, which no doubt benefits the daughters of the affluent and connected -- plus the decline in respect for the working-class people who often best understand in reality how things operate, get done, or don't get done:  hint:  it's not so easy as just demanding a solution, or delegating either -- accounts for a good deal of the current mediocrity we are mired in, as a country and in our overall communities.

Let's nurture talent, recognize and reward it, sure, but understand that perhaps the personality and alleged strengths of our current leaders and politicians are perhaps contributing to a lack of positive results.   It seems these days, everyone wants to be the highest paid player on the team (that's how they measure Success, capital S) and gain the most accolades and the top titles, and that becomes the game itself:  a perpetual campaign mode.

The overall record of the team's play, however, is sacrificed at the altar of Ambition.