The feminists seem to have succeeded in having it both ways. First they told us the problem for women is that we don’t get the education, career, and financial opportuniites we deserve. But now comes word that the National Association of Securities Dealers is funding a grant for Rutgers University to study whether women — particularly the really, really successful ones — are too stupid to understand what portfolio diversification is. Evidently, really, really smart women are just way too confused by all the investment options. Last Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal story put it this way in describing what Rutgers Professor Maureen Morrin plans to investigate with her grant-funded study:
“Professor Morrin also plans to study whether “type A, high-powered career women” are more susceptible to the negative effects of a large assortment of funds. “It would be counterintuitive,” she said. “It’s almost like a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.”
Terrific. Women have now come so far that our problem is having too many opportunities to determine our own destiny? Pleeeaaasssse.
