Is Affirmative action the way to correct the wrongs of the past? Historically in America, discrimination has been a common practice among American’s by judging and limiting the American value of equality and opportunity. Biases created perceptions of women and their roles in society. These biases have created cultural standards that continue to hinder equality. Women have been fighting for their rights to establish themselves as individuals for the same equality and opportunity as men, but with limited success. For example, it wasn’t until the 20th century that the opportunity to vote was guaranteed for women. Even with the great progress women have made, equality in compensation is still not commensurate to male counterparts. Inequities have been fought for hundreds of years, yet they have still not been overcome. Affirmative actions should be used to promote and establish behaviors by requiring the value to be accepted and exercised.
There are several complexities applying affirmative action to reconcile discriminatory practices of the past. Affirmative action is taken to provide equal opportunity and provide the ability to overcome cultural biases that have hindered advancement of
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Johnson articulated “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others, and still just believe that you have been completely fair" (The Leadership Conference). These new laws provided the prohibition of job discrimination. Equal Opportunity did not provide proactive measures against unfavorable