Why Los Angeles is
still a segregated city after all these years - LA Times
“Every metropolitan
area in the nation is racially segregated, and Los Angeles is no exception. We
tolerate residential segregation because we’re convinced that it happened
informally — because of personal choices and private discrimination. But what
cemented our separate neighborhoods is something most of us have forgotten —
government’s unconstitutional and systematic insistence on segregated housing
in the mid-20th century, establishing patterns that persist to this day.”
The Best Era for
Working Women Was 20 Years Ago - NYTIMES
“Beginning in the
late ’70s, surveys have found increasing shares of Americans accept and even
support the idea of women working outside the home.
But then, in the
early 2000s, the rise in the share of working women came to a halt. And since
the Great Recession the figure has even fallen. Today it’s just over 57
percent.”