She writes about male expectations, but the men involved are very hierarchical: give anyone an official position, and once they know that, they'll take orders. She may have troubles inside RAND getting the assignment, but welcome to the club on that one. I was the guy with the clipboard taking notes often enough myself.
I'm also skeptical about the famous female "inclusivity," having had enough female bosses to generalize. Bad male bosses want absolute obedience and won't listen to warnings. Bad female bosses insist you give verbal consent to their bad ideas, but they aren't any more flexible on balance, and the grinding down process is horrendously demoralizing. Or they won't tell you what they want, and everyone goes nuts. Contrary to her telling of it, "the sexes are different" is not the same as "female preferences are always superior."
I suspect the unvoiced problem is female tastes and expectations. She says she didn't grow up playing wargames, which put her at a disadvantage later, but I doubt it was The Patriarchy which stopped her. A college professor told me once she just couldn't assign The Iliad to her class because her female students wouldn't read it. (I asked her what classic literature her male students were allowed to veto, and never got an answer. Mind you, she herself had once fallen asleep during a firefight.) My old defense contractor outfit had some fine female analysts--but EVERY conference coordinator was female, and no one ever said we needed to diversify the staff there. And when we needed to put on a wargame, people generally preferred having a retired general or admiral in charge rather than a civilian of any description.
Which doesn't mean we couldn't use more female points of view--or any other different point of view, come to that. Just keep in mind that it's a problem to be solved rather than a matter of assigning guilt, and that it may only be solvable to a degree.
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