Affirmative Action :: social issues

Affirmative ActionAffirmative fulfil was orginally intentional to help minorities, except wo men-especially white women- cave in made the greatest gains as a result of these programs(Gross, 1996). Affirmative action is a growing argument among our society. It is multilateral and very often defined vaguely. Many people define approbatory action as the ability to strive for equality and inclusiveness. Others might enamour it as a quote-based system for different minority groups. I watch and support affirmative actions in that individuals should be do by equally. I feel affirmative action as an assurance that the topper qualified person will receive the job. Is affirmative action plumb? In 1974, a adult female named Rose was truned down for a supervisory job in favor of a male. She was told that she was the almost qualified person, but the position was going to be engorgeed by a man, because he had a family to support. Five years before that, when Rose was about to fill an e ntry-level position in banking, a personnel police officer outlined the womans pay scale, which was $25 to $50 month less than what men were being payed for the same position. Rose was furious because she felt this was descriminating to her. She confronted the personnel officer and he saw nothing wrong with it. Thanks to affirmative action today things like these situations are becoming more rare and/or corrected more quickly. Affirmative action has definately helped women and minorities in their careers, but it has up to now to succed in the goal of equality to the fullest for the business world to woment and minorities. Some observers reason that women have made huge strides with the help of affirmative action. They now fend for 40 percent of all corpo rove middle-management jobs, and the number of women-owned businesses has grown by 57 percent since 1982(Blackwood, 1995). Affirmative action was desinged to give qualified minorities a chance to compete on equal footing with Wh ites (Chappell, 1995). Equal opportunities for the bootlegs, for the most part, has remained more wishful-thinking than fact. Black students are continuing to struggle to seek an education, black business owners are palliate competing against their White counterparts, and black workers are experienceing an unemployment rate twice that of Whites and hold dead-end, labor-intensive, low-paying jobs. Few can argue that racism is still rampant in awarding craontcts, jobs, and educational opportunities, eventhough its been proven benefical to have people of different races with different ideas and different experiences working toward the same goal (Chappell, 1995).