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White men may be biggest winners when a city snags Amazon’s HQ2

  • Written by Amy Bhatt, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The tech sector has long had a diversity problem. AP Photo/Elaine Thompson

Amazon may be hosting the biggest – and most economically important – reality show ever as city mayors compete to snag the retailer’s second headquarters. And just like TV, it has a diversity problem.

More than 230 cities made the initial bid, and just...

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