Affirmative Action

What is resisted more by white males then by women and minorities because it is perceived to work against their own self-interest? Affirmative Action. The history of affirmative action has its roots in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act provided the initial legal basis for affirmative action for women and minorities in the workplace. Affirmative action is an intervention that is aimed at giving management a chance to correct …

…unqualified minorities or females or it is an entitlement program that provides unqualified women and minorities with jobs while unqualified whites or males are shut out of the workplace. But affirmative action is to involve the employer in bringing in Carter 9 qualified women and minorities in to the workplace from which it has been determined that they are excluded in order to make the workplace more reflective of the population form which employees are drawn.