Discrimination In African American Women

According to “The National Organization for Women’s 1966 Statement of Purpose” by Betty Friedan, women were still tied with societal maternal stereotype as “child-rearing”, which was the “most important part of most women’s life .” Society still used this traditional assumption to justify women from “equal professional and economic participation4.” Women were limited access to career and working compensation compared to men3. The huge gender disparities in pay had been influenced by the idea of “feminist” assumption. Majority of women were still restricted in some particular low paid occupations. Especially African American women were at the “bottom of the job ladder4.” Women also earned less than men did, and the gap in paying between men

So where was discrimination rooted? Is it the color of skin that started the idea of discrimination? Or is it the biological factors? In my opinion, both would be true in some aspects. I believe that discrimination might have started from the different in experienced cultures. For example, in racial discrimination, white people claimed to be superior toward other races once they realized the differences in cultural experiences and naturally they assumed their superiority. The color of skin or biological factors might have come afterward, once they are labeled along with the differences between cultures. Regardless the origin of discrimination or when it started, discrimination indeed has magnificent influences in not only the social but also politics and economics dynamics. Discrimination causes the unequal point of view in social standing of different groups, for example African American. Discrimination is shifting the achievement of equality between different subgroups in the society. It has been existing for a long time so that changing, or yet promoting, the idea of equal freedom between each and every individual has been come much more harder doing than