by ShortyGU12

Created on: March 27, 2009

In the world there are still many racists; people who have a strong distaste for their fellow human being over something that a person has absolutely no control over. Why dislike someone for something beyond their control? But there are two types of racists The one that many know which tend to be white supremicsts and then there are people who claim that the whole world is racist against them. The ones who are the first types of racists are jumped on very quickly because the world wants to be more equal to their fellow huma n beings; the world gone politically correct to be more accepting as a whole. The other type of racist isn't brought down as quickly and in fact any opposition makes them a martyr. They teach their children to spite people who are not like them. "Racism" as a whole has extremely diminished. There is no discrimination when it comes to Education because of Affirmative Action, and there is no discrimination in the workforce against people based on ethnicity due to the Equal Opportunity Employment (EOE).

The people who are currently suffering legally are women in the workforce. How? Women's salaries are less than mens' regardless of what field of employment and it's not just in America, it's also in England. "..On average, for every 1.00 a man earns, a woman gets only 82p across both the public and private sectors."(BBC, 2001). For the United States, "..Equal pay has been the law since 1963. But today, 45 years later, women are still paid less than men even when we have similar education, skills and experience. While women's wages have risen in all states, in terms of inflation-adjusted dollars, since 1989, the typical full-time woman worker does not make as much as the typical man in any state. At the present rate of progress, it will take 50 years to close the wage gap nationwide. In 2007, women were paid 77 cents for every dollar men received. That's $23 less to spend on groceries, housing, child care and other expenses for every $100 worth of work we do. Nationwide, working families lose $200 billion of income annually to the wage gap." (CLUW.org, 2009)From MoneyWeek: "More figures out last week showed that women still aren't getting paid as much as men. Across the board the gap is still a much too high 17.2%. But if this is the case it should also be the case that at the top of the tree in full time professional jobs the gap should be much smaller. Not so. In fact, ONS numbers show that for senior management the gap is around 27%, while

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