Should Women Rule the World? Of course

Experts: Men Naturally Push for Bigger Risks, Women Are More Cautious

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When congressional leaders addressed the heads of eight major banks Wednesday to grill them on their role in creating the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, they were looking at a table full of men.

In fact, of America's largest 500 publicly traded companies, only 13 are led by a female CEO, according to a report by USA Today.

Because it was men who dominated the financial industry before its monumental fall, some medical experts are looking to biology to learn more about how gender could be to blame -- as New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof put it, "would we have been better off had it not been Lehman Brothers, if it had been Lehman Brothers and Sisters?"

Medical evidence shows that things would be very different if women ran things.

By CLAIRE SHIPMAN

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