Digitization, in short, is not a great equalizer that drives all companies toward similar processes and outcomes.

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"The corporate sector in some sense has been a great equalizer" for women in medicine, Ms. Goldin said.

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Turkle viewed the Internet as a great equalizer, where users could reconstruct their gender and identity to suit their fancy.

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While e-books might have started out as a high-tech novelty for early adopters, they may ultimately prove to be a great equalizer across boundaries of ability, resources and education.

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College used to be a great equalizer: No matter their parents' social status, students who came to campus tended to deal with basic life skills on their own from frying up grilled cheese sandwiches to unclogging toilets and folding laundry.

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Nonetheless, it certainly is ironic to see the Internet, the great equalizer, leveler of playing fields, transformed into a giant game of Monopoly.

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In a story already foaming with distinctions of race and class, would beer be the great equalizer or just another wedge?

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Barcelona's Seydou Keita with a double, a brilliant Frederic Kanoute header and finally, deep into injury time, the equalizer from substitute Mustapha Yatabare completed the great escape.

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