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Sarah Green Carmichael: Managers, stop overlooking women’s potential

According to a new report by McKinsey and LeanIn.org, young women are just as ambitious and qualified as young men, but they are not getting promoted to managerial roles at the same rate. The discrepancy persists at every level of management. By the middle and senior management levels, the lack of women is painfully obvious. For every 100 men promoted to management, only 87 women are. Among Black women, that number falls to a dismal 54.
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Sue Lani Madsen: Vermont couldn’t do it, why Washington

Washington state’s majority party has been pursuing universal single-payer health care as the generic cure for America’s health woes for years. Unfortunately, when government-controlled systems are the only treatments you’re willing to consider, it’s easy to rationalize the diagnosis to match the prescription.