Women and minorities hardest hit?......................
It's an ugly reality and it's caused by women... Women are almost always willing to work for less. Think of them as 'illegalsLite' in the job market.
One of the most recent examples is women moving into medicine... pay and status for doctors is going down.
History of the process can be tracked back to women moving into secretary/clerks job... (yep, back in the days of Dicken's Ebenezer Scrooge and his secretary/office clerk:Bob Cratchit - who was male as were all the 'clerks' of the time). Poor - but able to support a wife and children in a meager fashion... something today jobs often don't provide...