Joan Acker focuses on two problems that feminists/women face: intersectionality and identifying barriers that bar us from having equality in workplaces. Her answer to both of these are “inequality regimes”—everyday practices and processes that allow inequalities to continue in the labor market. Acker wanted to address why organizational change projects fail and succeed through the concept of inequality regimes. Continuing into the introduction, the author states that much of feminism was focused on white middle-class women rather than women of color. Intersectionality is vital to my research topic because it is not just white middle-class women facing oppression in the job market by getting lower wages and more. Rather, women of color are experiencing
