What progress and obstacles did different minority groups experience in the 1980s?

Women were not receiving equal salaries as that of the men.
Latinos were able to achieve a place in the political world. 
Gay rights movement started for equal rights and civil status of the gay community. 
There were now many AfricanAmerican governors in the America and they also ran for Presidential elections. 

The constant presence of diseases or infectious agents within a given geographic area or population group. it may also refer to the usual prevalence of a given disease with such area or group. it includes holoendemic and hyperendemic diseases. a holoendemic disease is one for which a high prevalent level of infection begins early in life and affects most of the child population, leading to a state of equilibrium such that the adult population shows evidence of the disease much less commonly than do children (malaria in many communities is a holoendemic disease). a hyperendemic disease is one that is constantly present at a high incidence and/or prevalence rate and affects all groups equally. so probably family history.