As the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister comes under heavy flak for her Government’s less-than-ideal handling of Chennai’s flooding crisis, I look around and realise that not one recent female Chief Minister, except perhaps Sheila Dixit in New Delhi, has really covered herself with glory in governance. They are as corrupt and inept as their male counterparts. And yet, one of the arguments often extended to convince human resource departments to hire more women is that they are more efficient, more dedicated, less likely to lie or embezzle, and less...
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