African Americans have undergone copious amounts of oppression as well as discrimination throughout their lifetime, slavery being their …show more content…
Long ago, it was normal for only men to vote. Ultimately, “voting was seen as a right to men” (Carniol, 2010, p. 9) when in reality, it was a privilege that only men held. Although men realize that women are at a disadvantage, they refuse to admit that they themselves are over-privileged (McIntosh, 1989). This action further oppresses women through the unjust distribution of privilege. Likewise, the pay gap between men and women is extremely prejudiced. The United State’s pay gap in 2013 stated that among full-time workers, “women were paid 78 percent of what men were paid” (Hill, 2014). To conclude, women face discrimination both politically and economically in their everyday