Today, he says, most feminists now recognize that physiological differences play at least some part in sex-related behaviors. A recent study of the top 4,000 executives at the Fortune 500 companies found that men outnumbered women 3,993 to 19. But many feminists claim that it is simply bias and discrimination that has prevented equal representation. However, Dr. Goldberg disagrees. Males occupy more high-status roles because they are motivated more strongly to achieve that high status.
Males occupy higher-level roles because high status motivates the male more strongly.
He does not argue that either sex is uniquely associated with competence . But he does say that few women would devote the lifelong expenditure of energy necessary to achieve such positions, and any increase of women in these positions will be slight. In the future, America may well have a female leader, but we shall never see a time when males fail to attain the overwhelming percentage of top hierarchical positions. Even in our present male bureaucracies, problems arise when a subordinate is more 'aggressive' than his superior and, if the more 'aggressive' executive is not allowed to rise in the bureaucracy, delicate psychological adjustments must be made. Accordingly, feminists tend to say that our expectations of men and women are culturally determined, and therefore infinitely malleable.