Brii on 09 April 2015
The problem is that females and minorities have been oppressed for hundres of years. It's easy to claim that "Boom, equal rights. That's all it takes. We freed the slaves and allowed women to vote, so they should be just as successful as I am now." but that's dismissing the notion that women and minorities start out from gererally lower societal standings, and it's historically diffcult to move up from one's birth class. Frankly, it's more about classism than gender or race, but such groups have been oppressed are more prominent in lower classes and have had far less education on average.
It does take some nurturing to get them on the same level, and that at times involves compromise and understanding from all sides.
