A Look Back and Around at Diversity in Philadelphia

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It’s too easy, I worry, to think of diversity as a “solved” problem, of historical interest only.

In fact, it is neither. It is hard to actually understand that, although single-sex, racially/ethnically segregated workforces are mostly a thing of the past, the past is not long enough ago to be fairly thought of as “past.”

If you think that’s not so, go talk to your most senior female, black or Hispanic (or any other “other” category) colleague (whether a lawyer or not) about what your firm, company, or government office looked like when he or she started. And then get one of your non-diverse elders to tell you the real story of the first such hire(s).

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