Affirmative Action is measure used to encourage diversity in the workforce. The origins of this term are difficult to trace. Some historians say this term was used back in the early 1900s, when the women’s suffrage movement (women’s right to vote) was ongoing and many supporters of women suffrage used the term to express the distaste with the inequality of women not just in voting but in other parts of society, including employment opportunities.
President John f. Kennedy was the first to popularize this term in his executive order, no. 10925. In the order, Kennedy stated that, “WHEREAS discrimination because of race, creed, color, or national origin is contrary to the Constitutional principles and policies of the United States”. Kennedy
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It wasn’t until 1972, Title IX was signed into law. The basis of this law was quote, “Title IX is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity”. To summarize, title IX was a comprehensive law that enabled women to apply for a position in any profession of their choosing. It also allowed them to major in any college/university field of study. With all of this at hand, Affirmative Action was certainly not without its cons as well as its …show more content…
He elaborates by saying that there a multitude of ways to improve, which ae but not limited to, laptops, increasing teacher salary, building better facilities, encouraging more tutoring, etc.
Given all of the arguments against affirmative action and its negatives, there are positives to it. We first with professor Michaeline A Crichlow, from Duke university and Edmund Terence Gomez, from Malaya university. Both of these authors make a point that the overall objective of this project is reduce social inequality and ensure equal opportunities for all ethnic minorities and to put an end to racism. The primary take from this article is neo-liberalism and how it affects affirmative action.
To understand, we first need to take a look at what neo-liberalism is. This ideology is a sub form of liberalism that focuses on economics. The belief is that society should take a lassie faire approach when dealing with economics and that the government must limit the involvement in the open market and leave it up to trade. The problem with this line of thinking is by limiting government involvement in economics, minorities who suffer from disparities in their socioeconomic status cannot receive adequate help, thus leading them to turn to the private sector. Although there are many stories of minorities being very successful in the private sector, the opportunities to succeed are limited