Oppression and Privilege

Encouraging Women Of All Races & Ethnicities To Obtain Science Degrees

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D. A. Barber

When Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, speaking at the 2005 conference on “Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce,” suggested the lower numbers of women in high-level science positions may be due to innate differences in abilities between men and women, he set off a firestorm. But his statement ratcheted up programs to measure and even encourage the changing role of women from all races and ethnicities in science.

The Great American Wealth Divide: Race, Ethnic, & Economic Destruction

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Rita Rizzo

It seems that the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class shrinks more with each passing day. Ask any representative from the three predominate economic classes in America and they will each tell you that their class has suffered the most from the protracted recessionary period that beset our economy in 2007 and has yet to fully dissipate for the majority of our citizens. Let’s take a look at the numbers to see which strata of the economy actually fared the worst.

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