A few years ago the U.S. Department of Labor appointed a Glass Ceiling Commission, which predictably produced a report bemoaning the unfair treatment said to prevent women and minorities from getting ahead in business-land. My favorite comment on this exercise was that of economist Paul Craig Roberts, who observed that the only useful thing in the report was its list of 84 compa- nies rated especially friendly to women and minorities. The list, Paul posited, would be indispensable to white male college graduates wanting to know what employers to not bother with.
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