How far would you agree with the argument that ethnic minority women are triply disadvantaged by
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Women have long been considered the inferior half of the species to men and this has been reflected in all areas of society. In the workplace, women have been generally confined to low skilled, low paid work and are crowded in a limited number of occupations, known as 'women's work'. There has been an ongoing struggle against patriarchy for women, which now has been largely improved with the rise of feminism and political reform. Women are now present in more managerial and professional occupations than they were and the gender pay gap is closing. However, for ethnic minority women the story has been different. Many ethnic minority women feel that their struggle has been excluded from feminist writings and that their situation has got no better in the thirty years from 1950. Brown and Gay (1985) showed that despite laws making racial discrimination illegal in employment, 'racial discrimination has indeed continued to have a great impact on the employment opportunities of black people' (p. 30). Indeed, Skellington (1996) argues that racism can account for most of the unemployment discrepancies for black people.
In the 1950s and 1960s, migrants came to Britain to find employment...