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When you look in the mirror, what do you see?

On August 22, 1996, “The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act” was signed into law. The governments plan was to “end welfare as we know it” (“The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996,” par. 34).

Equal pay for equal work, fair and equal opportunities, and overall equality in the workplace, they do not seem like hard requests to fulfill, but throughout the years, women have been denied these requests. Now that women have begun to move ahead, equality has taken a giant leap backwards and not just for women. Gender discrimination has been a huge problem and still is.