Women in the U.S.
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Women in the United States need to look realistically at their own status in the social and economic spheres of this country today. The media has been responsible for producing a backlash of public opinion against working women and distorting the perceptions women have about their status in society. Through the 70s and early 80s, women were able to win equal treatment from employers due to effective governmental and judicial enforcement of anti-discrimination regulations. In the 80s and continuing to the present, these gains are being eroded through a lack of enforcement by governmental agencies and through the media misrepresentation of women's issues. Women are being coerced and tricked into believing that the women's movement and their own actions are to blame for all the troubles in their lives. These troubles include a lack of status, unequal wages, discrimination, marital difficulties, and remaining single even if by choice. Governmental enforcement of anti-discrimination regulations has fallen to the point where companies are able to discriminate against women in the workplace. The loss of economic equality accompanies a loss of power and status in the private spheres of a woman's home life. Power and status follow money. Traditionally, women have chosen, or been hired, to work in fields with little prestige and low wages. Female college students tend to segregate themselves by sex into separate majors. Females tend to major in the humanities; this path lea
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und state equal-employment agencies and EEOC district offices were closing between 40 percent and 80 percent of all cases without a through and complete investigation into the complaint (Faludi 369).
Other federal agencies were also scaling back enforcement, of equal opportunity regulations, after Reagan took office. Enforcement was no longer deemed a priority. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance, which is responsible for overseeing companies which do business with the federal government comply with all contract stipulations and with all employment regulations, stopped looking for violations of the equal opportunity regulations. In 1982, a study found that every OFCC staff member interviewed claimed that they had never found a company not in compliance (Faludi 369); the regulators were no longer looking. The same study also questioned the federal contractors. Most, of the contractors, said that they no longer felt any "pressure to comply with the agency's affirmative action requirements anymore" (Faludi 369).
Corporate america has found that, by employing women, women can be co-opted into the system and convinced to remain silent on issues of discrimination. Forty-one percent of upper-class women will state that th
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