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1、阅读理解(十二)001 Progressives often support diversity mandates as a path to equality and a way to level the playing field. But all too often such policies are an insincere form of virtue-signaling that benefits only the most privileged and does little to help average people. 001 A pair of bills sponsored
2、 by Massachusetts state Senator Jason Lewis and House Speaker Pro Tempore Patricia Haddad, to ensure gender parity on boards and commissions, provide a case in point.002 Haddad and Lewis are concerned that more than half the state-government boards are less than 40 percent female. In order to ensure
3、 that elite women have more such opportunities, they have proposed imposing government quotas. If the bills become law, state boards and commissions will be required to set aside 50 percent of board seats for women by 2022.003 The bills are similar to a measure recently adopted in California, which
4、last year became the first state to require gender quotas for private companies. In signing the measure, California Governor Jerry Brown admitted that the law, which expressly classifies people on the basis of sex, is probably unconstitutional.004 The US Supreme Court frowns on sex-based classificat
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