Presented without comment, via The Guardian:
Takeover battles are usually about share price performance and profits growth but the tussle between the mining giants Xstrata and Anglo American has taken an unusual turn with a crass, sexist attack on Anglo’s chief executive, Cynthia Carroll.
One of the few women to head a large UK firm, she has become the target of a tirade from Anglo’s former deputy chairman, Graham Boustred, 84, who told South Africa’s Business Day: “This woman’s hopeless. There’s no morale [at Anglo].”
Boustred then suggests that it is difficult finding a female chief executive “because most women are sexually frustrated. Men are not because they can fall back on call girls. If you have a CEO who is sexually frustrated, she can’t act properly.”