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Identify U.S. public policies designed to reduce discrimination

Barriers to equitable participation in the labor market drive down economic growth. When certain populations

are underrepresented, underpaid, or mistreated in a labor market or industry, the negative outcomes can

effect the larger economy. For example, many science and technology fields were either unwelcoming or

overtly unaccepting of women and people of color. Some major contributors to these fields overcame these

challenges. Mexican-American scientist Lydia Villa-Komaroff, for example, faced overt discrimination when

her college advisor told her not to pursue chemistry because women didn't "belong" in chemistry. She pursued

biology instead; she developed the first instance of synthetic insulin (the chemical that people with diabetes

need in order to survive) through a process that has saved million of lives and is credited with launching the
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