WHITE WOMEN BENEFIT MOST FROM AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

BUT THEY'RE AGAINST IT,
IN LARGE NUMBERS

A 1995 report by the Department of Labor found that 6 million women overall had advances at their job that would not have been possible without affirmative action. The percentage of women physicians tripled between 1970 and 2002, from 7.6 percent to 25.2 percent, and in 2009 women were receiving a majority of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, according to the American Association of University Women. To be clear, these numbers include women of all races; however, breaking down affirmative action beneficiaries by race and gender seems to be rare in reported data...

Sex discrimination protections were not included when affirmative action policy was initially institutionalized in the 1960s....October 1967, following pressure from the surging Women's Movement, that President Johnson amended an earlier order to include gender provisions.

Women have achieved so much over the last few decades due to Affirmative Action, it is hard to even imagine what the world was like before. Women are no more or less expected to go to college and they are a huge part of the work force. The difference between 1960s to 2016 is like night and day. 

And yet, "[a]ccording to the 2014 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, nearly 70 percent of the 20,694 self-identified non-Hispanic white women surveyed either somewhat or strongly opposed affirmative action" because they assume Affirmative Action is all about race and have erased the ways they've benefited from their memory banks.

Much like Clarence Thomas, those that do remember how they profited from Affirmative Action, they don't think it's necessary any more because 'I've made it and so have the people I actually care about.  In fact, anybody who hadn't made it by the time I made it is clearly lazy.' (<---extreme br="" sarcasm="">

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