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by strictnein 3118 days ago
I agree with the rest of your comment, but not this part:

> "Just like the iconic HP was never the same once Fiorina took over."

HP was in trouble well before she joined the company.

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Yep. Same with Yahoo! and Marissa Mayer. Women get blamed more frequently than men when a company is failing [0]. They are also more likely to become CEOs when a company is already in trouble [1].

[0]https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/female-ceo-blame_us_581...

[1]https://www.glamour.com/story/women-ceos-company-trouble

Marissa Mayer was a terrible CEO. Period. She was responsible for a string of 48 (!) (mostly) terrible acquisitions[1], banning remote working[2] and wasting company money on things like motivational books[3] or lavish parties[4].

She is getting more flak than the other terrible CEOs, but IMO it isn't caused by the fact that she's a woman. At least not directly.

Back when she was appointed as a CEO, media were treating her like a second coming of Jesus (which probably indeed was caused by her gender, she was a perfect role model for feminists). That set expectations bar really high, and when she failed to deliver, people turned against her.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...!

[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/feb/25/yahoo-chi...

[3] - https://www.recode.net/2016/2/2/11587472/marissa-mayers-big-...

[4] - http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-blows...