Ms Pinker is surely right that understanding the causes of workplace gender gaps, rather than mulishly insisting sex differences do not exist, will ultimately be better for both women and men.
Either that or they had mulishly stubborn clients who liked getting all their income on a W-2, so they could get refunds rather than make estimated tax payments, or some other inane reason.
Despite this, he has clung mulishly to power, refusing repeated calls for him to step down and insisting instead that he must remain in charge until April 2004, when parliamentary elections are due.