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To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.

Madeleine M. Kunin

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Madeleine M. Kunin
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: September 28
Diplomat
Politician
City of Zurich
Madeleine May Kunin
Madeleine Kunin
Travesty
Equate
Corporation
Corporations
Justice
Persons
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Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.
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Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, thats where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, its easier to combine career and family.
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