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have played an important role in giving opportunities to women and minorities to begin to take their rightful place in our society, and these measures are still needed today. have opened doors for women in the workplace, in our schools, and in other areas of our ....

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.... action is definitely needed for women to gain the same privileges as men at the workplace. Women hold only 3-5% of senior management positions. Women held only 6.9 % of the seats on corporate boards of directors in 1994. Of the female senior managers in Fortune 1000 industrial and Fortune 500 service industries in 1992, 95% were white women, 2.3% were African American women, 1.8% were Asian American women and only .2 % were Latinos. Although 23 % of the female workforce is made up of women of color, only 15% of female managers are members of minority groups. The percentage of women in executive, administrative and managerial positions rose ....