Despite the slew of laws and court decisions promising protection and hope, women are still subject to discrimination and sexism in all areas and aspects of the labor force.
Current statutes are somewhat inadequate, since they can be reversed at any time.
Affirmative action, equal opportunity, and equal education laws can be repealed or weakened by decisions of politicians or legislators. As more and more women join to fight in the trenches, they gain the personal knowledge of inequality, and devise methods to help correct this evil embedded within our culture. In sex, as in race, direct experience with a feared reality has proven effective in dispelling prejudicial or uninformed attitudes. When our society laments its lack of leaders and heroines, perhaps it is because we are looking in all the wrong places. Many women of the 1990's have a renewed respect for themselves and possess the courage to triumph over a variety of internal and external obstacles.