record by journalist Maureen Dowd, “We Offer More Than Ankles, Gentlemen.”2 Dowd bemoans how women are underrepresented in high government office. She at first suggests, quoting others’ descriptions of the feminine, what it is about women that should recommend them for these jobs: “Women reach across the aisle, seek consensus, verbalize and empathize more, manage and listen better. Women are more pragmatic, risk-averse and, unburdened by testosterone, less bellicose.” But then, in the next sentence,