By Chris Hoenig
Good news: White women aren’t discriminated against. At least, not according to officials in Washington state.
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) commissioned a disparity study last year to determine which underrepresented groups are still experiencing discrimination, particularly when it comes to public-works contracts. The result was a 678-page report that said that businesses owned by white women are awarded enough contracts that they can be excluded from the state’s list of minority-owned businesses and are no longer subject to the federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program. The DBE program is a set of codes that requires contractors to hire minority-owned businesses to complete a certain percentage of the project.
