Employment Equality In The US: More Work Needs To Be Done
Employment Equality In The U.S. – More Work Needs To Be Done
Barbara Alexander
Western Governors University
WGU Student ID# 000253550
Employment Equality In The U.S. – More Work Needs To Be Done
In 1964 the United States Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241). This law became known as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The the remnants of a disgraceful history of racial segregation and overt discrimination made it necessary for the government to provide necessary protections for those groups that were the target of this pernicious social ill. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 law provided protection from discrimination on the basis of race in hiring, promoting, …show more content…
Particularly overt and implicit is racial discrimination. Discriminatory failures in the hiring stage for racial minorities continues to diminishes the longtime employment opportunities for African-Americans by excluding them long term from the labor market. Recent evidence clearly suggests that both getting hired and remaining employed is particularly more challenging for minorities, especially …show more content…
P., Drago, R. W., & Shulman, S. (1997). Unlevel playing fields: Understanding wage inequality and discrimination. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies.
Ballman, Donna. "Does Discrimination Still Exist? Of Course It Does." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 29 Aug. 2011. Web. 07 May 2013.
Baumle, A. K., & Fossett, M. (2005). Statistical discrimination in employment: Its practice, conceptualization, and implications for public policy. The American Behavioral Scientist, 48(9), 1250-1274. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/214760582 accountid=42542
Couch, K., Daly, M. C., & Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. (2000). Black-white wage inequality in the 1990s: A decade of progress. San Francisco, Calif.: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Freeman, Richard B. (Editor); Holzer, Harry J. (Editor). Black Youth Employment Crisis. Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press, 2008. p15. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/westerngovernors/Doc? id=10230029&ppg=15
Lathonia, D. S., & Perlow, R. (2001). Applicant race, job status, and racial attitude as predictors of employment discrimination. Journal of Business and Psychology, 16(2), 259-259. Retrieved from
Barbara Alexander
Western Governors University
WGU Student ID# 000253550
Employment Equality In The U.S. – More Work Needs To Be Done
In 1964 the United States Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241). This law became known as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The the remnants of a disgraceful history of racial segregation and overt discrimination made it necessary for the government to provide necessary protections for those groups that were the target of this pernicious social ill. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 law provided protection from discrimination on the basis of race in hiring, promoting, …show more content…
Particularly overt and implicit is racial discrimination. Discriminatory failures in the hiring stage for racial minorities continues to diminishes the longtime employment opportunities for African-Americans by excluding them long term from the labor market. Recent evidence clearly suggests that both getting hired and remaining employed is particularly more challenging for minorities, especially …show more content…
P., Drago, R. W., & Shulman, S. (1997). Unlevel playing fields: Understanding wage inequality and discrimination. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies.
Ballman, Donna. "Does Discrimination Still Exist? Of Course It Does." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 29 Aug. 2011. Web. 07 May 2013.
Baumle, A. K., & Fossett, M. (2005). Statistical discrimination in employment: Its practice, conceptualization, and implications for public policy. The American Behavioral Scientist, 48(9), 1250-1274. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/214760582 accountid=42542
Couch, K., Daly, M. C., & Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. (2000). Black-white wage inequality in the 1990s: A decade of progress. San Francisco, Calif.: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Freeman, Richard B. (Editor); Holzer, Harry J. (Editor). Black Youth Employment Crisis. Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press, 2008. p15. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/westerngovernors/Doc? id=10230029&ppg=15
Lathonia, D. S., & Perlow, R. (2001). Applicant race, job status, and racial attitude as predictors of employment discrimination. Journal of Business and Psychology, 16(2), 259-259. Retrieved from