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Affirmative Action
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Affirmative Action
Discusses recruiting of minorities to correct historical discrimination in employment. Looks at pros & cons, laws, reverse discrimination, quotas, court decisions and social benefits.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages) |
12 sources |
1989
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"This paper will be concerned with affirmative action. The federal laws pertaining to affirmative action stem from Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Among other things, these laws require that employers refrain from discriminatory practices in the workplace. Furthermore, they require employers "to make additional efforts to recruit, employ and promote qualified members of groups formerly excluded" (Berry 17). This active approach is designed to rectify the discriminatory practices of the past while at the same time helping to insure greater equality for minorities and women in the future.There are those who think that affirmative action is not working toward balancing the inequities of the past and feel that instead it merely provides preferential treatment to a handful of minority employees. These opponents of affirmative action are (...)"
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