Thoughts for a rainy day

From Is There Anything Good About Men?:
"...culture relies on men to create the large social structures that comprise it. Our society is made up of institutions such as universities, governments, corporations. Most of these were founded and built up by men. Again, this probably had less to do with women being oppressed or whatever and more to do with men being motivated to form large networks of shallow relationships. Men are much more interested than women in forming large groups and working in them and rising to the top in them."
This article caused considerable discussion in the blogs last year which continue. Some of the links are in the article Male Bias or Female Choice?.
In another article The Lowdown on High Self-Esteem Roy Baumeister says:
"After all these years, I’m sorry to say, my recommendation is this: Forget about self-esteem and concentrate more on self-control and self-discipline."
Here is a site for some downloadable research articles by Roy Baumeister and colleagues.