Describe affirmative action
What will be an ideal response?
Affirmative action is the positive effort to recruit subordinate-group members, including women, for jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities. Today, affirmative action has become a catchall term for racial preference programs and goals. It also has become a lightning rod for opposition to any programs that suggest special consideration of women or racial minorities. Affirmative action has been viewed as an important tool for reducing institutional discrimination. Whereas previous efforts were aimed at eliminating individual acts of discrimination, federal measures under the heading of affirmative action have been aimed at procedures that deny equal opportunities, even if they are not intended to be overtly discriminatory.
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a. true b. false
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A) usually gated B) disproportionately majority white C) given more resources D) resource poor
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A. 20,000 B. 2 million C. 40 million D. 2 billion
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)