"For example, a man who sells insurance earns at an average $777 per week, compared to a women selling the same insurance for the same amount of hours who makes an average of $453. When a supervisory position becomes available, the man looks better qualified, more valuable on paper, simply because he earns higher wages. The women's lower earnings contribute to the glass ceiling effect."" (Sand-Internet).
The victims in this ongoing cycle of discrimination are mainly women, and minorities. In the past when World War II was in process women had no choice, except to go out to work in order to support their children, and the lives they had created with the men that were fighting for our country. They not only went to work, but they were good at it; however when the war was over, and the men returned they also brought with them the demand of their jobs back. The world was ready to have things back to the way things were. Therefor, along came the campaign to get the women back in the kitchen. You began to see a host of June Cleavers, and Harriet Nelsons on television parading happily around their spotless homes. Dressed beautifully, with a wonderful dinner in the oven, or some fresh baked treats for the children, that never gave her a hard time, all, this while awaiting the arrival of their husbands to come home from a hard days work. This was a subtle way to induce the idea that women should be happy tending to their own business, which of course was cooking, and cleaning. On the other hand in the sixties there was a revolution going on. Medger Evers, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcom X were all standing tall fighting for the rights of black people. The thing was to get black people the samre opportunities that all other people had one of, which was the right to work, and be something other than a maid or a shoeshine man. All of them in their own way insighting an equal opportunity movement.