A commentator on the radio said that the financial meltdown probably would not have happened if there were more women in high places in the world of finance because women tend to be more adverse to risk than men. The males took on too much risk. Their actions would have been tempered if there had been more women’s voices in the mix.
Apparently high testosterone levels are tied to high profits and when men had higher levels of testosterone they made riskier trades for higher profits.
Women approach risk differently. They make less risky choices and choose safer positions.
Women outnumber men in the workforce for the first time in history. But, the higher you go the fewer women you find.
It’s that whole harder for women than men to juggle the personal and professional particularly when there are children.
Some formerly male professions have become dominated by women for example veterinary medicine (Mattel certainly saw that coming with glamour vet Barbie.)
Clowning is a performance form traditionally dominated by men. There are certain expectations and structures. “A man in a dress, funny, a woman in pants, not so funny” Testosterone based gag development; build, build, build, blowoff. Estrogen based gag development: circle around something getting closer and closer to the emotional charge. Hmmm.
Kendall is working in the studio with a dozen women in less linear development of pieces, working together to develop a women’s style.
What will we come up with???