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...year of all FORTUNE 1,000 companies found that of the top five jobs below CEO at each firm, only 3% are held by women, up from 1% a decade ago. The record is so dismal that earlier this year, Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole launched an investigation into bias in the corporate suite...
...gubernatorial nomination, former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein said that as a woman she would be more steadfast in her support of abortion than her pro-choice male opponent. For that temerity, she was called sexist. The New York Times editorialized that such stereotyping was "precisely the kind of bias that women have fought against for years." (Unsuccessfully, the paper should have added.) One might think that women could be forgiven for taking advantage of bias when it finally works in their favor...
...charge that there is systematic bias is more a reflection of the paranoia of conservative activists than it is the reality of The Record," Donziger added...
...would love to have enough people so that all these stories could be written perhaps by people who did not have a particular interest in that situation, because then hopefully all suspicion of an internal bias on The Record would be alleviated," Miles said. "But we can't. I call upon the people who wrote the flier to join The Record so that we can cover more stories and provide a better forum for the Law School community...
Donziger also denied that there has been any bias in any articles he has edited, saying that those articles are always edited by several other people on The Record staff and that the editing process is inherently "unscientific...