White-collar America, once dominated by men, has seen a phenomenal influx of women over the past thirty years. While a female lawyer, doctor, or CEO is no longer considered a rarity in our times, women still face some oppression compared to their male counterparts. In retrospect, some professions have always been controlled by women, and men have not made notable progress in these fields. In 1970, finding a female lawyer to represent you would have been a difficult task, since less than 5% of professionals were women. Today that number has risen to nearly thirty percent. The percentage of women doctors has almost tripled over the course of thirty years. African Americans have not made such dramatic progress in the last fifty years, while women have had a huge impact on the corporate world. You might ask: How did women make these extraordinary advances? This is largely due to the education they receive. Girls are currently encouraged to enroll in courses that cover math and science, rather than home economics and typing. As pointed out by Nanette Asimov, in her essay "Fewer Teenage Girls Enrolling in Technology Classes," school officials advocate the need for graduate and honors classes for teen girls, in both the arts and sciences. This support and reassurance carries over to college and finds a permanent fixture in a woman's life. Although women continue to succeed in once-male-only professions, they continue to lack respect and equality from their peers, colleagues and society. The average male lawyer and doctor earn 25% more than their female equivalent. Women have always lived with the reputation of being intellectually inferior and physically subservient to men. This medieval and ignorant notion is far from the truth. In 1999, high school men and women had similar SAT scores, separated by only a few points. In addition to posting similar scores on the SAT, males' average score was only two-tenths of a point higher than females' average score on the ACT. Even though a woman may be as qualified as a man for a certain occupation, women receive unwanted harassment and are under strict surveillance. A good example of this would be the women depicted in "Two Cadets Leave the Citadel"..