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An especially dumb column by Alan Murray in today's Wall Street Journal, beginning with an idea worthy of CBS's "60 Minutes," from whose show last Sunday he apparently stole it:

If there were more women on the top rungs of the corporate ladder, it might be easier to overlook the fact that the Hewlett-Packard board has booted two of them in 20 months. But there aren't -- the number of female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies can be counted on two hands. So you have to wonder: does gender have something to do with it?

What follows is a pointless rehash of the known facts in the H-P spying affair, having nothing especially to do with the gender of the protagonists. Why wouldn't Murray wonder whether gender had anything to do with why Pattie Dunn was invited to join the board of H-P in the first place? She had no appropriate experience or qualifications whatsoever -- except that she was female, at a time when corporate boards were desperate to add women to their ranks. Another affirmative action disaster? Probably.

Thanks to Tom Blumer for the link.

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