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To: koan who wrote (28350)	12/26/2006 1:43:08 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78419

Women are more stable harbingers, which in Africa has been shown to be good for business. In one coastal African country, the women run all the fishing businesses, and the local communities have prospered. Man is the explorer and dreamer, woman is the homemaker and fire tender. In abo societies, women was the worker. She did all the farming, gathering, food preparation and camp chores. The men just went out and chased game. This was vital for some tribes as farming was impractical, but camp is 75% of all the work. You still see that today. Indian women are the ones who keep the tribe together around the camp and do the work. They can outwork the men in general. More highly specialized evolution for non agrarian societies. Our societies are all camp and no exploration anymore. The downtown office is wasting our men as they cannot roam about the forest and seek game. True to our ancestral form, the secretaries and office managers of the previous decades were mostly women, welding the company together. For these reasons, out sourcing information and telephone answering will destroy a business. No fire tenders, no fire. If I get phone dialogue with number choice I often don't phone back. No human, no business. Virgin Airlines has the right idea. EC<:-}

To: koan who wrote (28350)	12/26/2006 5:54:59 PM
From: LoneClone	Respond to of 78419

That's exactly the model followed by the Grameen Bank and similar microcredit lenders who operate in the Third World. (The founder of the Grameen Bank won a Nobel Prize this year.) They create small cooperatives of almost exclusively women in 3rd World countries and lend them amounts -- usually $50-100 -- that may seem laughably small to us but are enough to allow these entrepreneurs to buy a cell phone or tractor or something similar that is sufficient to propel them out of poverty. They developed their female-centric approach through experience, as they found that when these cooperatives are made up of females they almost always repay the loans, something not so with the men. LC