Schlafly showed opposition when she continuously stated that it was un-American to practice group rights. In her eyes, the government and other businesses should only support individual rights. She focused mostly on the benefits women receive from affirmative action rather than including all groups recognized under the concept. Schlafly said affirmative action was based on the principle that men and women are interchangeable. However, affirmative action does not state that equality exists between men and women on a physiological level.
Affirmative action is based on opportunity where equality does exist.
She also recognized that society was nowhere near that level. She said affirmative action took race and gender into account. She cited an interesting study concerning the prejudices of the business world. The study took two equally qualified men, one white and the other black, and sent them with similar resumes into the job market. Results showed employers gave less interviews, less interviewing time and less job offers to the African-American.