Employment Equality

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This paper discusses employment equality, which has a topic of debate for generations. Over the course of the last four decades, the civil rights movement, in America, has brought two types of programs into place to help bring about this equality. Affirmative action and equal employment opportunity programs have the same end goal, employment equality, yet use very different means to get there. Following is a discussion regarding both types of programs, their advantages and disadvantages, and their effectiveness and usage.

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"Affirmative Action Programs Versus Equal Employment Opportunity Programs Introduction: Origins, General Description, Theories, Concepts, and Practices of Affirmative Action Programs: Affirmative action programs were established to provide positive employment opportunities for people of a minority group, who are traditionally thought of as being discriminated against. In fact, in Great Britain, these types of programs are known as `positive discrimination' noting the favoritism of certain groups who have, in the past, been discriminated against."

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