Affirmative Action :: social issues

favourable ActionAffirmative action was orginally designed to help minorities, but women-especially white women-have made the great gains as a result of these programs(Gross, 1996). Affirmative action is a suppuration argument among our society. It is multifaceted and very often defined vaguely. Many lot define affirmatory action as the ability to strive for comparability and inclusiveness. Others might see it as a quote-based system for different minority groups. I agree and support assentient actions in that individuals should be treated equally. I feel affirmative action as an assurance that the best qualified person will receive the job. Is affirmative action fair? In 1974, a woman named lift was truned rarify 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 filled by a man, because he had a family to support. Five years before that, when Rose was about to fill an entry-level position in b anking, a personnel military officer outlined the womans pay scale, which was $25 to $50 month less than what men were being payed for the corresponding position. Rose was furious because she mat up this was descriminating to her. She confronted the personnel officer and he saw nothing wrong with it. thank to affirmative action today things like these situations are becoming more(prenominal) rare and/or corrected more quickly. Affirmative action has definately helped women and minorities in their careers, but it has yet to succed in the goal of equality to the fullest for the business demesne to woment and minorities. Some observers struggle that women have made huge strides with the help of affirmative action. They now hold 40 percent of all corporate middle-management jobs, and the issue of women-owned businesses has grown by 57 percent since 1982(Blackwood, 1995). Affirmative action was desinged to let up qualified minorities a chance to compete on equal priming with Wh ites (Chappell, 1995). Equal opportunities for the bleaks, for the most part, has remained more wishful-thinking than fact. Black students are continuing to scrape to seek an education, black business owners are still 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).