The amount of money a person might earn, based on a specific career, is known as

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

the correct answer is:

b) a rich merchant.

b. the passage of the equal rights amendment  

explanation:

this mean that anything that someone else could do they could do