To the Editor:
Re “Right Divided, Disciplined Left Steered Justices” (front page, July 1):
I was surprised that the analysis of the four liberal justices’ discipline to move the court to the left did not mention or credit the fact that three of those four justices are women—and that there is not a single woman in the conservative wing of the court.
I find that when an organization has a strong female contingent, it is able to work strategically through many rounds of decisions to achieve specific ends. Conversely, it is not uncommon that when an organization is all male, there is team breakdown, distrust and uncoordinated behavior. Let the court’s recent liberalism be a lesson for society in gender diversity and female empowerment.
ARI GERSTMAN
Washington
Note from KBJ: The six males on the court were split, with two voting to allow homosexuals to "marry" and four voting not to allow it. The three females on the court were in lockstep. By the way, I thought men and women were interchangeable, psychologically. The letter writer says they're different.
