You Should Politicize the Coronavirus
Now isn’t the time to talk about inequality. That was the message the British government sent out when it suspended companies’ annual legal duty to publish their gender pay gap—a week before the deadline. Soon after, the political adviser turned journalist Sonia Sodha received fierce backlash for noting that a disproportionate number of the British doctors dying from the coronavirus come from ethnic minorities. This isn’t the time to talk about race, she was told, because brave health-care workers of every ethnicity are losing their lives.
The collection of data on race and gender is an easy target for those who style themselves as champions of or and easing “” regulation. But without it, policy makers are unable to see the full impact of
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