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When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.

~Cass Sunstein

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If interviewers are prejudiced against women or Hispanics, for example, a face-to-face interview will predictably result in discrimination. Reliance on tests, or on actual or past performance, can promote equality.

~Cass Sunstein

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When President Barack Obama is trying to persuade Americans not to do something, he has a go-to line: 'That's not who we are.' Whether the issue involves discrimination, immigration, torture, criminal violence or health care, he invokes the nation's very identity.

~Cass Sunstein

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Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.

~Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers

Topics: Discrimination Gender Our Place Workforce

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Our goal as Republicans is to ensure gender discrimination ends once and for all, and to also help guarantee those who want to remain in the workforce and continue their careers aren't hindered by clunky, outdated regulatory structures that penalize them for making that choice.

~Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers

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As the highest-ranking Republican woman in the U.S. House of Representatives and the mom of two daughters, I believe if we're serious as a nation about empowering every American to pursue his or her own dreams, then true cases of gender discrimination need to be confronted.

~Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers

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As the Trump administration takes office - and we see acts of racism, misogyny, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination around the country - ask yourself, 'What's important to me? What do I care about? What have I benefitted from that I want to pay forward?' Then look for ways to spread help and hope.

~Celeste Ng

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I don't think I know a single person who's a minority who hasn't experienced some form of discrimination at one time or another.

~Celeste Ng

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Our parents treated all three of us - two sisters and a brother - equally. When it came to education, or our future plans, there was no discrimination between us based on our gender.

~Chanda Kochhar

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I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

~Charles B. Rangel

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