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On the recordDecember 8, 2021
The problem is clearly a systemic one. Hiring women and people of color into a hostile environment where they promptly leave, traumatized, is not the progress that we are aiming for.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley criticizes systemic issues in hiring practices affecting women and people of color.

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