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“Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.”

Years Past Opportunity Focus Discrimination Blinded

Book:Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

Source: Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

“For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned gunmen ready to blow your head off as you run for a train. When the city of distorting mirrors revealed itself, through its districts and discriminations, I discovered more about London's past as a reworking of my own submerged history.”

Book Eye Running Past Opportunity My Own Cities Ready Mirrors Train Blow London Criminals Discrimination Immigrants Maps Nests Submerged Gunmen

Book:London: City of Disappearances

Source: London: City of Disappearances

“The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.”

Way Action Opportunity Language Goal Talking Discrimination Setting Settings Target Setting Goals Australian Affirmative Action Affirmative Quota

Author:Quentin Bryce

“... until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.”

Men Opportunity Sex Vote Discrimination Criticize Right To Vote Sex Discrimination

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.”