As a result, the public is divided about whether the imbalance in corporate America will change in the foreseeable future, even though women have made major advances in the workplace.
The courage to conquer nature, to overcome human nature to bring a wide range of restrictions, broke free from the shackles of our natural and greater freedom.
And we have a strong hand going into the second half, an improving profile in services, ongoing momentum in software and great high-end hardware product announcements.
"Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here," wrote the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle.
Those disconnections make it fanciful to suppose that the nascent dialogue between China and India will lead to rapid breakthroughs in economic co-operation.