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lazide • yesterday at 2:40 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Lololo. It is exceptionally rare to be prosecuted, let alone convicted, as a woman.

The musk’s of the world are just exceptional at getting leverage - and pretty good/exceptional at manipulation.

Holmes was just good at manipulation, not so good at leverage, and eventually her fraud rose to the level even her manipulation skills were insufficient - and then had nothing to fall back on.

Oops.


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vvpan • yesterday at 2:54 PM

I did look up the numbers actually. On average women get lighter sentences for fraud, not exceptionally rare at all more like 30% shorter sentences. But on the other hand prominent women (CEOs) are much highly scrutinized, especially their departures so average and prominent here are not the same.

https://www.russellreynolds.com/en/about/newsroom/women-ceos...

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