Your textbook lists several public policy steps that were designed to make discrimination in the labor market illegal. Looking at the gender wage gap and the race wage gap, we can conclude That these policies have been successful because the gaps have been closed. The gender wage gap has been solved, but not the race wage gap. The data from the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the gaps continue to exist. Public policy will eventually achieve the goal of eliminating the wage gaps.