c ich, and Cheng, "Political" 24; Ong and Liu 46, 49-51). Since then, Asian women have entered the U.S. in far greater numbers than in years past "and now make up the majority of immigrants from some countries" (Ong, Bonacich, and Cheng, "Political" 4). In part the 1965 Act's preferen tial treatment of immigrant family members accounted for this (Ong and Liu 53). There was also change in demographics of the immigrants themselves, with educated middle class "professionals, managers, and entrepreneurs" (4) accounting for many immigrants; before 1965 most Asian immigrants to America were mainly uneducated men from laboring classes.
Beginning in the 1960s and continuing to the present, there was also a need in the Ameri
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