Dear Professor,

We would have liked to have written our project on Sexual Discrimination, or, our hearts were really leaning toward Age Discrimination. But by the time the assignment sheet got around to us we saw that everyone else had already taken these subjects, some three fold. Our team remembered you telling the class as a whole to choose a subject that hadn’t been chosen yet, so all topics could be covered. We saw that no-one listened to what you had only minutes before just told us. Thus we choose another topic Discrimination Against Disabled Working Women, which we figured would be just as interesting as any other to research.

We learned quite a bit about our topic as we investigated our sources; we will address the most important of them. Our group gained knowledge of the fact that not all disabilities are visible. All of us tend at some time or another, to assume that a person isn’t disabled because we can’t see it. As our research showed, disabilities can and do come in many forms. As a matter of fact upon further discussion with the ladies in this group we’ve discovered that each of us has one or more disabilities; some visible some not. What really shocked us as a group is the fact that pregnancy is considered by some employees to be a disability. We just can’t comprehend that one; mainly because we were all in the Navy at one point and the first thing they would say when you reported to your supervisor was “you’re pregnant not sick or disabled.” Is that wild or what? Then again it is possible that a person may even have a temporary disability, and will still be treated poorly, one just can’t win.

With two of us in the group being female and black we are well aware of the feminist prospective, we participate in it every time we walk out of our doors. As for our other learned and realistic older female of the group, though she is white and female, she has confessed that she has experienced age discrimination. We learned that women continue to have it hard in this patriarchal society; a society that doesn’t truly want or accept any being who is less than perfect. Americans, in reality don’t want to see people of color, or anyone who may be disabled or disfigured trying to make their way in society. If they did we would have no need for, the Civil Rights Act, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or the Americans with Disabilities Act; give this a minute of thought if you will.