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...professor is no naif on the subject of civil rights and racial inequity in the U.S. Author of a 1975 work, Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy, Glazer long has held that quotas are too blunt an instrument to apply to discrimination...
...Glazer, author of the 1975 work Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy, said that because Asian-Americans have already gained significant representation in many prestigious professions, it is unnecessary to include them in programs designed to target minorities. In support of his position, Glazer said that while Blacks constitute about 12 percent of the U.S. population, they make up only 1.8 percent of American medical school faculties; Asian-Americans, at about 2 percent the population, make up 7.5 percent...
...wife and a mother -- have rendered it obsolete, at least in its original form and rhetoric. "Saying the women's movement is dead is like saying the cold war is dead. No. No. It's over. It's won," insists Carol Gilligan, professor of education at Harvard and author of In a Different Voice, which explores the moral values and psychological development of women. "Those changes have been made, and they really are extraordinary...
Schwartz's "Mommy Track" idea unleashed a torrent of condemnation. Critics asked why women, and for that matter men, could not make a temporary switch to a slower track. Why couldn't workers slow down and speed up depending on the changing demands of their personal lives? Author Sylvia Ann Hewlett foresees a "sequencing" pattern in which dual-career couples would alternate the times in which they focus heavily on their work. A mother or father might be intensely involved in a project for a period of time and thereby earn credits for time off to spend with the family...
John L. Larew '91 is a former intern at The Washington Monthly. Any similarities between the author's agenda and the political philosophy espoused by that magazine are purely coincidental...