Inequality in Race and Gender: A Growing Gap

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What would you say if I told you that the typical white family held a net worth six times greater than the typical black family at the end of the 20th century? What then would you say if I told you that gap has now doubled. This is the reality people of ethnicity face each day, society normalising the education and unemployment gaps that are growing far larger than we've ever seen before. Yet, Carly Fiorina with all the given wealth and opportunities, had the boldness to say that someone can't be limited by their gender or race. How is it possible that someone with such influence can claim that there are no limits, when they have never had to experience the poverty and segregation that so many others have? The issue of inequality in race and gender constantly …show more content…

One in three Australian women aged 15 years and older has had to experience physical violence perpetrated against them, and one in five has experienced sexual assault. As a result, this will amount to $15.6 billion per year by 2021, at the expense of the Australian economy. Focusing on the inequality ethnicities face, a greater proportion of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participating in the labour force were unemployed, at 17.2% compared with 5.5%, the unemployment rate of the indigenous is more than three times higher than that of the non-indigenous. Education opportunities for the indigenous of Australia is poor as well, with the proportion of Indigenous 20–24 year olds completing year 12 or equivalent was 59% compared with 86 – 88% for non-Indigenous Australians. Fiorina claiming that the only limitations that gender and races have are the ones they create for themselves, is statement can that be falsified in more than one country. As now, it is becoming more aware that there can be no advantage gained in a seemingly biased

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