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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Women are smarter than men. If you're a woman, you already know this. If you're not a woman, just ask your wife or mother.
See, I told you.
I bring this up not to get into a gender debate. There isn't one, as far as I'm concerned. Women are better with kids and the checkbook. They don't lose money in Vegas. They can cook a meal without using the microwave. They are psychologically tougher. Women aren't afraid to wear Nikes to work and then put on their dress shoes when they get to the office.
Given an equal playing field, women are almost always more successful. For all of the grousing about Oprah's recent ratings decline, her show still has twice the audience of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" combined.
Not surprisingly, two women have emerged as the leading thinkers, sayers and doers of the post-financial crisis world: Sheila Bair, chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., and Elizabeth Warren, director of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the $700 billion bank-bailout package, known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Bair and Warren have been kicking butt and taking names. Their ideas and communication skills have sharply contrasted with those of, say, Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman who famously pronounced the recession over before anyone could find a job, and Timothy Geithner, the Treasury secretary, whom we're supposed to take seriously when he claims the U.S. is committed to a "strong dollar."
Bair-ing down
Consider Bair. Forbes recently named her the second-most powerful woman after German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Bair also received a Profile in Courage Award from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. The praise recognizes not only her achievements but also her willingness to battle her high-ranking bosses, including Geithner.
Bair deserves the praise. She was way ahead of her male counterparts in Washington when the credit crisis took hold. She tried to warn the Bush administration about the dangers of credit derivatives and subprime loans, dissent that went unheeded.
Since the blowup, she has been aggressively using the FDIC to mitigate the impact of big bank failures such as Washington Mutual Inc. and IndyMac, but she hasn't asked taxpayers for direct help. Facing dozens, possibly hundreds more bank failures during the next two years, the FDIC will lean on several sources for funding: its credit line with the Treasury Department; higher premiums from banks; and private investors.
It's a smart plan, but what's really drawn attention is her aggressive press for reforms at big banks such as Citigroup Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!c/quotes/nls/c (C 4.10, +0.04, +0.99%) and for reform in general. At Citi, Bair pushed for structural changes, including the removal of its chief executive officer, Vikram Pandit. She scored on the former and lost on the latter.
As for the reform bill moving through Congress now, Bair thinks the administration's effort falls short, and she hasn't been shy about saying so. That's proof that she's doing the right thing: On Wall Street, she's probably the most despised administration official.
Warren-ted measures
Not that Warren is far behind. As the main TARP watchdog, she's been critical of the government's response. Warren doesn't like the advantages that bailed-out banks have over smaller competitors that aren't on the government dole.
TARP banks "borrow much more cheaply and frankly suck capital away from the other financial institutions that don't have the guarantees, that aren't too big to fail and really begin to distort our marketplace," she said in an interview with the Nightly Business Report.
"The problem we have right now is that Washington is structured not to do consumer protection. It's structured to take care of the banks," she added. "I hate banks that cheat."
To that end, Warren has been pressing for a resolution authority that would let big banks fail. The Harvard Law School professor also endorses a Senate bill that would create a new authority for regulation and strip some of the power from the Federal Reserve. She's also championing a consumer financial protection agency, a proposal Wall Street says will limit choices and stifle economic activity -- as opposed to the great choices and economic activity we've received under the current system.
Bair and Warren aren't perfect. Bair has a tendency to make enemies rather than to push for consensus, and Warren doesn't seem to have the political skills to enact the changes she'd like to see.
OK, so Bair and Warren are pretty smart, but does gender really explain it?
Maybe. Unlike men, Bair and Warren have had to prove themselves in male-dominated industries. While their female counterparts in Washington -- think Mary Schapiro, head of the Securities and Exchange Commission -- and in the private sector -- Sallie Krawcheck, now the head of Bank of America's wealth-management business and a former top executive at Citigroup -- they didn't kick the door down to get into the old boys' club; they eschewed it altogether. They're not worried about offending their buddies on Wall Street.
Now, Bair's and Warren's brand of anti-establishment medicine threatens Washington and Wall Street's patriarchy. Theirs is a simple recipe for reform that, if they can get it done, would make most everyone happy. However, if the guys get in the kitchen, we already know the result: Someone gets burned.
David Weidner covers Wall Street for MarketWatch.
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