I'll bet this is why: Iceland's Example
"Iceland eyes new government
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Iceland's president called politicians to his office on Sunday for an update on talks to form a new center-left coalition for the crisis-hit island nation, with a government expected to be announced later.
The crisis, which has seen Iceland's fast-expanding banks collapsing under a weight of debt, forced the country to take a $10 billion IMF-led rescue package and sparked widespread anger, including protests that eventually turned violent.
Agent provocateurs exist everywhere.
The Social Democratic Alliance and the Left-Green Party are forming the new government after center-right prime minister, Geir Haarde, quit on Monday after the protests. He became the first leader to fall as a direct result of the credit crunch....
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And ELEVEN DAYS LATER (eleven?) -- in an article about British banking and women?:
"Rumblings of gender revolution hit British banking industry" by Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan, Washington Post | February 12, 2009
LONDON - .... Amid the debate about whether the financial crisis would have happened, or been as severe, if more women had been in charge, there are signs that more women will be taking part in the global rescue.
Iceland is leading the way. Since its humiliating economic collapse, Iceland has turned over key levers of finance to women. It now has a female prime minister, and women lead two of its major banks, replacing men who were blamed for crashing the institutions with reckless excess.Why did the pro-women, pro-feminist papers keep that so quiet?
Oh, MONEY and GLOBAL CONTROL overrides all, doesn't it?
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And since?
