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This disparity in favorable outcomes for sex versus race claims is particularly interesting given that Title VII was originally introduced to eradicate a history of discrimination against racial minorities, specifically African Americans; sex was added to the list of protected classes as a last-ditch effort by opponents to thwart its 270 Determinants of Discrimination-Charge Outcomes passage. Moreover, recent research documents a declining significance of race in terms of the prevalence of discrimination-charge filings relative to other protected classes (Wakefield & Uggen 2004).