Michelle Ryan is helping to create a world in which being a woman is no barrier to becoming a leader in any field.
It’s blowing a gale down Canberra’s Marcus Clarke Street, but the wait staff at Miss Vans will not let me in one moment before opening time of midday. I am banished outside for the remaining blustery 10-minute wait.
Not only is Ryan punctual, she can see. I’ve left my glasses somewhere so need her to interpret the menu for me. She starts diligently reading it out, item by item, but then sees a set menu. Problem solved.I’m happy with that. And we quickly establish we will not be drinking wine. It’s unusual for the celebrity spotlight to land on academic researchers, but when she and fellow Australian social pyschologist Alex Haslam coined the phraseHarvard Business ReviewThe researchers had wanted to test a theory that publicly listed companies performed more poorly after appointing a woman into positions of leadership.Ryan worked in the UK at the University of Exeter for 18 years.
“I worked out that I didn’t want to be a doctor or a lawyer. Blood: yuck! Legal case studies: that’s not fun! So I just did science.” Ryan and Haslam looked at the share price of FTSE 100 companies immediately before and after the appointment of a female board member to figure out which came first: the women or the drop in share price.
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