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Thesis statement: The outcome for the call for equality for women will be productive if race, gender and class issues are scrutinized and measures put in place to bar adverse social effects resulting from inequality.

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Acker, Joan. "Gendered organizations and intersectionality: problems and possibilities." Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 31.3 (2012): 214-224.

Joan EliseRobinson acker is an American sociologist researching, educating and authoring on feminist issues. She has been part of the Oregon University since 1967. She authored several books and articles related to women’s push for equality. She has actively written on race, gender and class as the main intersecting systems of operations. The theory of gendered institutions is part of the works that will help in this research paper as it will provide the insights and initiatives taken by women to free themselves from a gender stained society. Her work will prove to be instrumental in highlighting the weakness of the American society which delimits the achievement of equal rights in various life aspects especially as constrained by gender stereotyping, racism and sex identity discriminations.(article)

Foster, Johanna E. "Women of a certain age:“Second wave” feminists reflect back on 50years of struggle in the United States." Women's Studies International Forum. Vol. 50. Pergamon, 2015.

Johanna E. Foster is an assistant professor and director in the sociology and gender studies programs in Monmouth University. Her main interest is gender studies with her focus on the intersection of gender, race and class inequalities. Although most of her work is directed towards women in incarceration her work has wealth information on feminist theories of gender, multiracial identities and inequality. This information will enable the research to reach a conclusion on the areas of women’s list of rights demand achieved and those that are still pending achievement of equality. The reflection of 50 years of struggle canopies the research and will elaborate the milestones of the push for equality by women in the US given the three stumbling blocks; race, gender and class that bar the progress for the equal rights movement. Therefore, her work will help elucidate the various aspects of women’s discrimination in America.(article)

Free, Laura E. Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era. Cornell University Press, 2015.

Laura E. Free is a Hobart and William Smith College associate professor. She has been able to author the book “Suffrage Reconstructed” which majors in gender and race issues which revolved around the voting rights of either gender in the US and particularly the race impoverishment aspects that led to women have limited voice in matters of voting leading them to stay at the periphery of the societal decision making process in the civil war era. This book will prove handy in pinpointing the various gender, race and sexual aspects that made women be viewed as inferiors up to the point of being denied voting rights in the civil war era and post-civil war era. The impact lack of voting rights had on their daily life as part of the inequality is a central focus in this paper. (book)

Mullings, Leith. On our own terms: Race, class, and gender in the lives of African-American Women. Routledge, 2014.

Leith Mullings is a professor, an author and an anthropologist. She is a renowned and distinguished anthropology professor at the graduate center of the CityUniversity of New York. For two years since 2011 she was the president of the American anthropological association (AAA). As a member of AAA and black radicle congress, she has actively participated in pushing for racial equality and socio-economic justice for women in the US. Her main concern is the structures of inequality and their resistance. In the endeavor to research on the equal rights for women in the dreams of America her work will serve as a stepping stone to highlight the challenges that women of color face in their quest for equal rights in the US.Her works is invaluable on the areas of race class and gender that limit the efforts of black women from achieving equity in the American soil although they are citizens.

Taormina, Tricia. "NYC Launches Initiative Focused on Young Women of Color." EQUALITY/WOMEN’S RIGHTS [New York] 8 Oct. 2015: n. page. Print.

Tricia Taormina is an editor at women’s e.news. She is a human rights student at the Columbia University with her main focus being gender. This release of the womensenews.org was meant to oversee the launch of an initiative whose main focus is on women of color. The center focus of the initiative is their access to jobs, education and Medicare taking into account, sexual identity, race and gender as factors affecting the lives of women. “She will be” is the hash tag for the campaign. This is a very reliable source for this paper since it encompasses all that impact women and the areas that have not received full attention given the inequality grounds. This article perfectly concurs with my papers quest for equality for women in the US who have been neglected on the gender, race or sexual identity status.(newspaper)