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“Recent research has shown that although women now enter professional schools in numbers nearly equal to men, they are still substantially less likely to reach the highest echelons of their professions.”

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America's broad middle class accumulates two thirds of its wealth through homeownership enabled more by federal actions than private thrift, savings, and investments. The reach of these social-investment actions, however, by both intent and omission, has not been extended to low and moderate-income families, and only barely to Hispanics and African Americans.

Sociologists Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro (2007: A27) 

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This is like 16 pages, but if you just read the parts in bold, you get the jist.