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Sexism really is still with us. On a recent episode of PBS’s “To the Contrary,” where I contributed as a guest, the discussion turned to the fact that women still lag behind men in achieving the highest leadership positions in politics and business. And some people think the statistics point to a problem with women themselves.

“Women need to learn to be much stronger” if they are ever going to reach “parity” with men, argued one commentator. Indeed, this activist complained that women are complacent, that “the real barrier now is not so much the external barrier, but the internal barriers that women have.”

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