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Fairly recently in our country, anyone who was not a white male had a very slim chance of obtaining a well-paid job or a promotion. In her chronicle, entitled “In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution,” Susan Brownmiller recollects filling out a job application in the `60’s which asked for the date of her last period and whether she had ever had an illegal operation. Such questions were not uncommon at that time. Employers would routinely question a prospective employee about her personal life, such as whether she was married, pregnant, or planning to become pregnant. Fortunately, due to several civil rights acts, such questions are now illegal. However, gender-based discrimination does still exist within the workplace; the