thomas jefferson

There will need to be more flexibility in our expectations for how one performs in high-powered jobs at different stages of one's life, and also in the support systems for working parents. More flexible timetables for coming up for tenure, or the chance to attain tenure as a part-time professor, as well as more generous child-care and leave provisions and other policies that recognize the actual circumstances of people's lives, could make a big difference …

…graduates are "one of the best-kept secrets of all time and virtually totally ignored in the literature on racial differences." Taylor quotes Thomas Sowell, a black economist at the Hoover Institution, who says, "There is a positive hostility to analyses of black success if they suggest that racism may not be the cause of black failure." Taylor notes that while the black population doubled between 1950 and 1990, the number of black white-collar workers went up ninefold.