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A group of 30 middle managers divided roughly equally between the sexes had assembled off-site to discuss their company’s new “diversity” program.
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Thomson, P., Graham, J., Lloyd, T. (2005). Companies are kingdoms. In: A Woman’s Place is in the Boardroom. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230514126_3
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