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Affirmative Action
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Affirmative Action
This paper discusses the policy of affirmative action emphasizing public and research libraries: History and development, legalities, purposes, discrimination, testing, public opinion and court cases,
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages) |
18 sources |
1990
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"Affirmative action in libraries is primarily focused on the problem of gender inequality, although institutionalized racism is a problem, as well. Libraries are "women's ghettos." Men fill most of the key administrative posts in libraries, even though the members of the work force are mostly women. Women in libraries are substantially underpaid relative to men. The avowed purpose of affirmative action programs is to address such inequalities, but the lack of gender parity in libraries has persisted through nearly twenty years of affirmative action programs.It is possible that the ineffectiveness of affirmative action in libraries and elsewhere is bound up with the history of such programs and with public attitudes toward them. Americans ..."
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Affirmative Action (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-Affirmative-Action/18224
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"Affirmative Action" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-Affirmative-Action/18224>
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