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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 society. But equal opportunity for women is still not visib ....

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.... that I found showed why affirmative 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 workforc ....