Affirmative Action: Issues
“Affirmative action” is a double-barreled initiative inclusive of the “right of all persons to be accorded full and equal consideration on the basis of merit” and an agenda of aggressively hiring and furthering able individuals in protected sectors such as wounded veterans, ethnic minorities and women.” The policy was centered on employment and education, and the objectives that were established were designed to take forceful measures, in the tenets of non-prejudice, to guarantee that marginalized groups that had generally been the subject of mistreatment would be given the same opportunities as the “whites” in the society. The reason of ...
