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Job Discrimination + Affirmative Action
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Affirmative
Action
Programs that address
employment
imbalances
caused by
past
discrimination
by
considering
the
race
or
sex
of
employees
or job
candidates
What does Affirmative Action
Include
and
Exclude
?
Include:
hiring
or promoting
women
or
African Americans
Exclude: rigid
quotas
or
unqualified
hiring
What Role does the
Supreme
Court
play in a
Business
?
They set the
legal context
in which a
business operates
and lets employers know what they are and are not
legally
permitted
to do
This is why their position on
affirmative action
is crucial
Moral issues
also influence their decisions
What are 3 Arguments
AGAINST
Affirmative Action?
Affirmative action
injures
white
men
and
infringes
their
rights
Affirmative action
itself
violates
the
principle
of
equality
Non-Discrimination will
achieve
our
social
goals
therefore,
stronger
affirmative action is
unnecessary
What do
Critics
of Affirmative Action say?
They often label it "
reverse
discrimination
," but this term is
misleading.
Because...
Job Discrimination involves
prejudice
, inaccurate
stereotypes
, or the
assumption
that a group is
inferior
Inference
A thought
transition
where the first thought is used as evidence or
justification
for the second thought
Moving from one
thought
to
another