With all the gender focus of this newspaper, I am surprised that the obvious has not been pointed out by the journalist.

Women are often their own worst enemies. Have five women form a committee with power, drag an employee woman in front of that committee for scrutiny, and watch how often a near chainsaw-massacre ensues. Anyone who has seen this phenomenon will know what I am talking about, whether it is the academic hiring committee or the corporate review committee or whatever. There is a saying that men in committees tend to form an "old boys' club"? Well women tend to form the opposite, a wrestle-mania chamber of sacrificial barbarity. You will never read about it in politically correct articles, but a phrase along the lines of "we need to get a man or two on this committee for dilution" is not uncommonly uttered in the hallways of executive power, by exasperated women on the committee.

What do you want to bet that the committee in question was mostly or all women?