To: Mary Cluney who wrote (129502 ) 3/8/2001 8:03:42 PM From: Ali Chen Respond to of 186894 OT Mary, "Point to me the name of a book, the name of an author, the name of a scientist, or any other human being other than Ali Chen that reflect in some way yours words about the order of nature." I must confess that I didn't dig any philosophical book on the subject in search for proper terms and definitions - I simply do not have time for this, so I made up the combination "the order of nature" as a first closest translation from my language. Please excuse my poor English if this combination sounds offensive to you in any way and is associated with any highly-negative movement in America. It seems that the poor term has afflicted you so much that you miss the most part of my post, where I argued that the natural women's reproductive duties statistically must be at disadvantage in business, as well as in many other activities. In response to your request about finding any studies on gender differentiation in modern society, I would ask you to provide me with any reference in Constitution, US Laws, or any Congress publications where it will be stated in any form that women are prohibited from occupying positions of CEO in any company. Then, I found your inference to feet boundings a little of a stretch, and largely irrelevant to the case - from the same article it follows that Ms. Jung was born in Canada in an accomplished family of a chemical engineer and an architect. Long way from Snanghai btw.goldsea.com Not to infer to any weakness in her competitive environment, but: "Avon's corporate culture also appealed to Jung. Women form one quarter of the company's Board of Directors and nearly half of its senior officers." Finally, in total support of my last sentence of my previous post (which you skipped for some reason), please note:businessweek.com "Separated from husband Michael Gould, CEO of Bloomingdale's. They have a three-year-old adopted son and an 11-year-old daughter from Jung's previous marriage." Happiness of this family must be really exciting. Sorry, your point appears to be not well supported by your own example. - Ali