During my 34 years service in the Bank I came across a number of women executives and many of them were as good as their male counterparts. The only factor I found to be common among them was a tendency to be over-assertive and at times agressive, as if they were trying to prove a point, which any case was already well-established that they were by no means inferior. With due apologies to all womenfolk in general and Ms. Jayashree Shah in particular.