One of the more intriguing — yet unanswerable — questions that has arisen in the wake of the financial crisis is whether all that alpha-male testosterone at the top of Wall Street firms helped to ratchet up the excessive risk-taking, inflating the housing and securitization bubbles, the bursting of which led to a credit freeze and the worst recession in generations.

Would the presence of more women in the C-suites have led to a different outcome? Would women have made fewer outlandish bets, been more team-oriented and more willing to listen to dissenting views? It’s the Wall Street version of the age-old question, “If women ruled the world … ?”