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- 71: Feminism and Gender Equality In the 1990s
- ... s civil rights movement and the women’s movement. Blacks have long been accustomed to the government being unsympathetic to violent acts against them. During the civil rights movement, legal action seemed only to come when a white civil rights activist was killed. Women are presently facing similar disregard and their movements are truly one for civil rights. On 2 March ... are allowed to succeed out of their expected social role. This attitude of rising blatant and subtle attacks on women’s civil rights is further exemplified in recent reactions to affirmative action plans. These plans have been devised to try to give women and minorities an opportunity to participate in traditionally white male dominated areas. However, we see the same trends ...
- 72: Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990’s
- ... civil rights movement and the women’s movement: Blacks have long been accustomed to the white government being unsympathetic to violent acts against them. During the civil rights movement, legal action seemed only to come when a white civil rights activist was killed. Women are facing similar disregard presently, and their movement is truly one for civil rights. A national campaign ... are allowed to succeed out of their expected social role. This attitude of rising blatant and subtle attacks on women’s civil rights is further exemplified in recent reactions to affirmative action plans. These plans have been devised to try to give women and minorities an opportunity to participate in traditionally white male dominated areas. However, we see the same trends ...
- 73: Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990's
- ... civil rights movement and the women's movement: Blacks have long been accustomed to the white government being unsympathetic to violent acts against them. During the civil rights movement, legal action seemed only to come when a white civil rights activist was killed. Women are facing similar disregard presently, and their movement is truly one for civil rights. A national campaign ... are allowed to succeed out of their expected social role This attitude of rising blatant and subtle attacks on women's civil rights is further exemplified in recent reactions to affirmative action plans. These plans have been devised to try to give women and minorities an opportunity to participate in traditionally white male dominated areas. However, we see the same trends ...
- 74: Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990’s
- ... civil rights movement and the women’s movement: Blacks have long been accustomed to the white government being unsympathetic to violent acts against them. During the civil rights movement, legal action seemed only to come when a white civil rights activist was killed. Women are facing similar disregard presently, and their movement is truly one for civil rights. A national campaign ... are allowed to succeed out of their expected social role. This attitude of rising blatant and subtle attacks on women’s civil rights is further exemplified in recent reactions to affirmative action plans. These plans have been devised to try to give women and minorities an opportunity to participate in traditionally white male dominated areas. However, we see the same trends ...
- 75: Racism
- ... We find that many successful civil rights remedies, voting right laws, which have begun to take part in the Congress and state legislatures, have come under attack from conservative polititians. Affirmative action, for example, wich has created an increasingly diverse workforce, has also been a victim of strong criticism. There are several minority groups which have been the most affected, and are ... through political pressure, marches, demonstrations and through the courts. Fighting several important court cases has brought significant consequences in what concerns the fight for equal rights ( ending discrimination through legal action). Among some we find, Guinn vs. United States in which the supreme Court in 1910 brought down some old traditional clauses of state constitutions as an "unconstitutional barrier to ...
- 76: Sexual Harassment
- ... battle, only twenty eight of Price Waterhouse's nine hundred partners are women. One avenue of reform which the U.S. Supreme Court has long supported is the use of affirmative action plans. On March 25, 1987 the court ruled that the public transportation agency of Santa Clara County, California was justified in given a road dispatcher's job to Diana Joyce ... a test than the man did, but a panel of supervisors found her to be otherwise just as qualified. The decision was based on the fact that the agency's affirmative action plan met the court's three criteria for fairness. The plan was flexible, temporary, and designed to gradually correct the imbalance in the overwhelmingly white male work force. ...
- 77: A Democratic Society
- ... solely in the hands of government. When people are unsatisfied with government they take the necessary steps to replace the person or people that are not doing their job properly. Affirmative action programs are put in place to increase the number of minorities in the work place. But again, this creates inequality because there is not an equal opportunity for all races ... accept for an insufficient worker. Since we live in a democratic society, people are assumed to have the same opportunities and chances as the next person. So in my belief, affirmative action is failing society and causing more inequality. Affirmative action will never be a solution to racism. It is more a way of controlling racism. Ideologically, affirmative action is ...
- 78: Prejudice
- ... attempts to curve prejudice and abolish it; but as long as people are still here, it's impossible. One way that America tried to stop prejudice was an act called Affirmative Action. Not only did it not work, but also it is a form of prejudice all by itself. Affirmative Action is a quota for job employment and also for school acceptance, especially the acceptance in to colleges. It states that a certain amount of people from each race ...
- 79: RACISM TODAY
- ... were prepared to accept other races as their equals (Bloom 29). "Now, however, the issue of race has become more complex^×more complex because there are now multiple agendas including affirmative action, quotas, and set-asides" (Piazza 34). The main agenda revolves around affirmative action, steps taken by an employer, school, or other institution to expand oppurtunities for blacks, hispanic people, women or other minority groups. "The clear implications of the most recent ...
- 80: Prop. 209
- ... prohibits discrimination or preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employmnet, education, and contracting. A yes vote on this measure means the elimination of affirmative action programs for women and minorities that the government runs. It will save $125 million annually by elemating programs that the state uses to inforce affirmative action. These savings can be used for other, more constructive programs to help elimate discrimination. Maybe other Propositions on the ballet can use the extra funds. I think that ...
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