Defying superstition

The boardrooms of modern corporations are nerve centers. The decisions made here influence the course of the entire corporation, which in this sense can be compared to a ship. Biases and blind spots in the boardroom can easily ruin the entire voyage, and superstitions against inclusion of capacious people on a board of directors can be deadly. Misogynistic attitudes and superstitions are facts of history on ships and on corporate boards. There were times when seafaring superstitions were not gender biased. This can be seen in the powerful narrative of a man who was thrown overboard to calm the seas in a vicious Mediterranean storm. The man, a certain Jonah, ended up under a tree where he complained about a city that averted divine wrath because of listening to his warnings, but that is a different story. Yet for many centuries in Western maritime history, women were targets of male