AT&G does not have any female employees. Ann Smith applied for a job as a machine operator. Though she did not obtain the minimum score of 40 on the machine operator test, AT&G plans to hire her as part of their new affirmative action plan. There are 10 men who passed the test who did not get hired. Is this legal?

a. No, an applicant must be qualified to be given preference based on gender or race
b. No, preference is never allowed
c. Yes, because AT&G has no women employees, they can do this
d. Yes, because they are only changing their rules for one person, this would be a reasonable plan


a

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