To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (178711 ) 7/16/2004 6:04:03 PM From: Amy J Respond to Lizzie, the martha stewart thing is creating a horrible image of America in certain Asian countries, QUITE to the contrary of what we here would expect. I thought they'd be happy that the USA is cleaning things up, but they look at what happened to Martha Stewart and they say, "see America treats successful businesswomen very shoddily." They absolutely love Martha Stewart over there. Then they point to Enron (and some other things) and say "see, boys club" and very strongly they say America doesn't like successful businesswomen - that image has really stuck it seems (hopefully recruiting doesn't become a problem), though I wonder if they will continue to say that now, now that Ken Lay is in court. (I'm told in some Asian countries, wealthy businesswomen have it much better than American businesswomen because wealth trumps what they perceive as gender discrimination around successful people - it's just a different system. Pros/cons both ways. The American system has a bit more unintentional, lack-of-awareness-to-the-different-styles brand of gender discrimination at the top (since wealth/rel'ps don't trump unintentional discrimination at the top), unlike certain Asian countries (but where wealth/relp are their brand of discrimination.) Pick your choise of poison.
