the point isn't about "lesser". It is about ability to communicate effectively and get things done with a government bureaucrat operating in the male chauvinistic environment. The phrases downstream in the article describe completely expected situation:
>Zhu was better able to communicate with Mountain View. But she had her hands full fending off Chinese government directives.
So they effectively improved interface to Google HQ instead of the interface to the government. That's very typical of western companies still learning how to operate outside of the Western culture.
>Zhu was better able to communicate with Mountain View. But she had her hands full fending off Chinese government directives.
So they effectively improved interface to Google HQ instead of the interface to the government. That's very typical of western companies still learning how to operate outside of the Western culture.