The time has come to shift the focus to women in Economics and Management, enough apologising for who studied STEM for what reason and who didn't.
After the USS Maine explosion in 1898 (and the Partition of Bengal a few years later, in 1905), the western world was suddenly teeming with women studying Economics and going all the way, writing their theses on currency.
Let's say we were talking about Eleanor Lansing Dulles, not yet Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter. These Radcliffe sorts were champions against themselves, since there had never been females involved in currency matters before Eleanor Lansing Dulles gave deep thought to the French franc in the 1920s. (Sarcasm? Possible.)
ELD was an innovator, she set trends, maybe she knew Indian women, the latter were taking a lot of interest in whether the US was going to have a foreign intelligence agency and what it would make of Indian women.
Oh, by the way, where was ELD's dissertation on the French franc? Has it been published, was it widely available? Was it taught at universities, in India and abroad? Antara herself had been trying to research the French franc for a while and the way she was attacked, with furious storms and disruption of water supply to stopping bowel movement. Where was the crisis, was ELD's work on franc/currency so great that Antara ought to get scared? It was complete by itself, Antara couldn't even add some of her wisdom to it?
Think how interesting it would be if we could have a forum dedicated to ELD's thesis on the franc. These were interesting times for the currency, so many alternatives being considered, cryptocurrency a dime a dozen, not merely bitcoin. We could discuss ELD's thoughts, see if it influenced the other Dulles family members, how else would the crisis resolve? (For decency's sake, we'd assume they were her thoughts on the French franc.)
Otherwise, the Indians would keep filing fraudulent leases for decades and Antara would watch the 'tamasha'/farce and remain unemployed?
ii. If the above was unacceptable, we were establishing new rules in 2025. Those who have secret dissertations on the currency were more powerful than those who could publicly discuss such matters and provide information on a daily basis.
If your thoughts were unknown, you were a big deal. If you publicly and coherently argued, you were weak.
The above argument would be popular in Bangladesh, West Bengal and the 'Bartaman' newsroom. They loved the Tagores, and the Tagores provided gainful employment and lengthy careers to women who wrote on currencies. No Tagore-approved employment? No discussion on currencies please, we're Bengalis.
So now we have a better idea how the lease was being pursued. Women were employed if the Tagores wanted them employed and they were the best--in such a case, what did it matter who studied STEM and who didn't?
Sandhurst, on the other hand, provided privileged Mykolaiv Houses to those loved by the Tagores, maybe ELD.
Wow, so Sandhurst, the military of the erstwhile British coloniser, could enter a discussion of the American currency, using nice girls like ELD? No threat to national security, since the national security apparatus of the US was also provided through Sandhurst and its Mykolaiv Houses? Who would agree in DC that the British have eaten up the United States?
It would be a kind of first, the Sandhurst fraudulent lease and when it fell apart? What if no one touched that currency? Oh yeah, the above was tried in the early 1990s, an effort to make sure Antara didn't finish high school or go up to junior college. You shouldn't Boorda a second time, should you?
June 4, 2025.
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