Equal Rights for Women When a young woman graduates from college and starts looking for a job, she is likely to have a and even demeaning (降低身分的) experience her. If she walks into an office for an interview, the first question she will be asked is, “Do you ?” There is a calculated system of prejudice that lies behind that question. Why is it for women to be secretaries, , and teachers, but totally unacceptable for them to be managers, administrators, doctors, , and Members of Congress? The unspoken assumption is that women are different. They do not have executive ability,orderly minds, stability, leadership skills, and . It has been observed before, that society for a long time, discriminated against another minority, the blacks, on the same basis — that they were different and As a black person, I am no stranger to race prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far oftener against because I am a woman than because I am black.