Posting 10

As a Latino woman in the United States, I believe that the political, legislative, and social reforms targeted by the Women's Rights Movement are still primarily for white, middle-class women and not all women. In my opinion, although much progress has been made; the simple fact that women from racial minorities still have limited access to education, employment, contraception and are, as studies have shown, more likely to experience violent attacks, demonstrates the need for much more to be done.

Yes, there are many more non-white many middle-class women today living fruitful and successful lives; however, in this country, representation is only accomplished through power and power is only accomplished with money. A Capitalist society will always be able to show false progress in social issues, it can show tokens such as Condoleezza Rice, or Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and will beat this horse to death in order to make believe that everyone in this country has the right to success. Furthermore, television and the media is still showing the Cosby Show like the example of what an African American family looks like in the United States. Well, the truth is very different, according to statistics, minority women are less likely to get into higher education, and, Affirmative Action or not, minority women are less likely of becoming CEO's or reach the glass ceiling. Furthermore, minority women have less access to contraception due to the lack of health insurance and because of the poverty in their neighborhoods and the unemployment rates, domestic violence has risen in the past few years.
As you can see it all revolves around money, poverty overall will keep affecting minority women more than it affects white women, therefore, in a Capitalist society, we will always be at a disadvantage.

For more detailed information about these disparities, please visit the United States Department of Labor website at http://www.bls.gov/cps/demographics.htm#race and http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/law_enforcement_courts_prisons/crimes_and_crime_rates.html report #309. These reports give you an idea of the reality we live today. Keep in mind while looking at these numbers that African Americans are only 13% of the population and that Hispanics are 15% of the population of the United States, therefore if we were equally affected by crime or lack of education, only these percentages of all crimes for example would affect minority women.