Women’s role in failed financial institutions

IN her letter (April 10), Florence Craven asserts that men caused the banking crisis.

But a few moment’s research on my part revealed women on the boards of most of the Irish banks and a little further probing found women on the consultative panels of the Financial Regulator. It was then the work of mere minutes to find women also in senior positions in stockbrokers, hedge funds, governments — even the board of Lehman Brothers at the time it went bankrupt was not all-male. Doubtless Ms Craven draws comfort from the idea that all men are bad and all women are good — and why let the facts spoil this?

William Mongey