Employment Law Chapter 8: Affirmative Action Questions: 1. What is affirmative action? Answer: Affirmative action is when minorities and women HAVE NOT been represented in the workforce as having an equal employment opportunity. 2. When did this concept first arise? Answer: Affirmative Action arose out of many different executive acts and orders from the 1940’s to the mid 1960’s. In 1961 the equal employment opportunity was recognized by President John F Kennedy. In 1964 President
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gender-blind." Affirmative Action began as a way to stop discrimination‚ but as new laws have been added to it‚ it has become reverse discrimination. Everyone has the opportunity to be a great addition to society. It is an immense injustice for people to say that someone of a different race or gender is not capable of achieving the same status in life as a white male. Through this paper‚ the concepts of affirmative action will be analyzed and discussed. Affirmative Action began in 1965 when
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Reverse discrimination Affirmative action is not the source of discrimination‚ but the vehicle for removing the effects of discrimination. The Labor Department report found less than 100 reverse discrimination cases among more than 3‚000 discrimination opinions by the U.S. District Court and the Court of Appeal between 1990 and 1994. Discrimination was established in only six cases. The report found that‚ "Many of the cases were the result of a disappointed applicant . erroneously assuming that
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In todays society‚ some Americans believe that reverse discrimination is a direct result of the affirmative action programs put in place during the time of civil rights. During the late 1960s it was a decent thought process but‚ as time proceeded we‚ as Americans‚ believe that society is equal enough now that race should not be considered for a college admittance or a job opportunity. A color blind society is the ultimate goal of the United States. In the court case University of California Regents
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Affirmative Action or Reverse Discrimination? Bob and Steve have both applied to University X for the spring 2002 semester. Both have Board scores that are 1400 and maintain a 3.8 G.P.A. Their extra curricular activities are impressive and both their college essays are outstanding. Bob has been rejected and Steve has been accepted. Bob is Caucasian and Steve is African American. They have just been exposed to affirmative action. Targeted especially towards minorities and women‚ affirmative action
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The term “Affirmative Action” originated from the United States of America to prohibit unfair discrimination against certain groups of people because of non job related characteristics in terms of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 . Canada was not far behind in this movement‚ “Affirmative Action” was set in place through the “Canadian Employment Equity Act” for the same purpose. After reading through the articles as well as some supplemental material revolving around affirmative action I have concluded
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Is discrimination the solution to resolving past discrimination? In what society can you erase inequality by promoting it? How is any policy to be considered affirmative when it creates harm to others by discriminating? Is it the responsible of Universities‚ especially public ones to change their admissions policy to cater to private organizations? What kind of precedent does this set? Affirmative action originated with the intent to end discrimination‚ but in reality it justifies racism by
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Gabriella Arreola United States Government – 2305 Dr. Nancy Hart 6 October 2014 Essay Set II – Affirmative Action The Supreme Courts have recently decided to allow states to abolish affirmative action in college admissions if state voters say so. Instead of getting rid of affirmative action altogether‚ the court decided to let state voters control what will happen. Affirmative action in evaluating college applicants has supporters and opponents on both sides of the political spectrum‚ but generally
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RESEARCH PAPER AFFIRMATIVE ACTION INTRODUCTION Affirmative Action is an employment legislation protection system that is intended to address the systemized discrimination faced by women and minorities. It achieves this by enforcing diversity through operational intrusions into recruitment‚ selection‚ and other personnel functions and practices in America. Originally‚ Affirmative Action arose because of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s desire to integrate society on educational
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brings you direct equality quit like Affirmative Action does. If you consider affirmative action for its intentional purposes than Affirmative Action is very just‚ its purpose being to equalize the education and economic gap between minorities and causations. Although it is not a perfect method to achieving equality in this country‚ it is essential to accept it for why it’s been put into place and that it is all part of a process. Of course affirmative action
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