Overthrow the Tyranny of Low Expectations

A useful article (from Straits Times interview with the new Engineering Dean at NTU, who is a woman) to let us re-visit some of the main points regarding gender obstacles plaguing women in the workplace:
1)tyranny of low expectations with regard to women (hence less pressure to excel? and fewer opportunities?)
2)old boy's network/club syndrome
3)distribution of family duties; the burden tend to fall more on the woman than the man in the house

Note the useful stats: of the Fortune 500 companies, only 4% have female CEOs (one of them being Marissa Mayer, CEO Yahoo), and 16% have women on their board.