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Labor/Employment

Feb. 25, 2005

Day of Reckoning Looms for Those Who Maintain Anti-Female Bias

As the debate over Lawrence Summers' remarks keeps building and building, I confess to feeling a strange thrill.

Charlotte Fishman

Pick Up the Pace

Email: cfishman@sbcglobal.net

Charlotte is a member of the executive board of the National Employment Lawyers Association and a frequent contributor to CLE programs on hidden bias in the workplace.

As the debate over Lawrence Summers' remarks keeps building and building, I confess to feeling a strange thrill.
        It isn't just the satisfaction of watching an arrogant white man being taken to the woodshed. It is something else - the startled realization that I am witnessing a newly emerging social consensus - that really stirs my blood.
        Those who have stood in awe on the island of Haw...

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