MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2008
Facts and Fallacies with Thomas Sowell: Chapter 1 of 5
The conventional wisdom instructs that the rise of women in corporate America in the latter half of the 20th century was due to the implementation of anti-discrimination laws championed by the feminist movement. In reality, a greater proportion of American women held high-level occupations in the first half of the 20th century. What gives? Thomas Sowell sets the record straight on this and other male–female employment fallacies.
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About Thomas Sowell
Economist Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman senior fellow on public policy at the Hoover Institution. He is the author, most recently, of Economic Facts and Fallacies, which follows Affirmative Action Around the World (2004), Basic Economics (2004), and Applied Economics (2003). His nationally syndicated column appears in more than 150 newspapers from Boston to Honolulu.