You personally may have never benefited from AA. Perhaps you never climbed the ladder high enough to experience either the class ceiling or diversity program that promoted you because yes you are qualified, but also because you were a woman. In the past you would have not got the job. They would have went with one of the dozen guys they wanted to go with but instead they chose you because the CEO is demanding more diversity.
Here is an article about women like you
White women benefit most from affirmative action — and are among its fiercest opponents
A 1995
report by the California Senate Government Organization Committee found that white women held a majority of managerial jobs (57,250) compared with African Americans (10,500), Latinos (19,000), and Asian Americans (24,600) after the first two decades of affirmative action in the private sector.
Like blacks, women were being held back by white men. Well since the 90's women have been the biggest beneficiaries of diversity programs. Hate to burst your bubble but if it weren't for AA, no matter how hard you and the black man worked, you wouldn't have got the job. Why? Because bias exists. Different bias for black man than you. You, they think you are going to put your career on hold at some point to start a family. A concern they don't have with white men. Or they think you're a bitch instead of a tough leader. Lots of bias reasons why white men in power never gave women, and blacks, a chance.
A 1995 report by the Department of Labor found that 6 million women overall had advances at their job that would not have been possible without affirmative action.
At first AA wasn't for women. However, it was not until October 1967,
following pressure from the surging Women's Movement, that President Johnson amended
an earlier order to include gender provisions.
In general, women today are
more educated and make up more of the workforce than ever before, in part because of affirmative action policies. Indeed, from the
tech industry to
publishing, diversity has emerged as an overwhelming increase in the presence of white women, not necessarily people of color.
Incidentally, over the years white women have become some of affirmative action's most ardent opponents.
According to the 2014
Cooperative Congressional Election Study, nearly 70 percent of the 20,694 self-identified non-Hispanic white women surveyed either somewhat or strongly opposed affirmative action.
White women have also been the primary plaintiffs in the major Supreme Court affirmative action cases.
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