I of the act banned employment discrimination based on “race, color, sex, and nationality.” 2. It also created a permanent equal employment opportunity commission to enforce its provisions.3. The act also for the first time included obligations not to discriminate against private employees, labor unions, and governmental agencies (Urofsky 17). III. Affirmative action helps women and minorities by providing equal chances at employment possibilities.A. Sonia Liff was quoted as saying “Women and minorities fail not because they are less able to carry out the tasks; they are excluded because of the way that their necessary qualifications are defined (Webb 545).C. The competition is structured against women and minorities because the job is perceived as requiring skills, experience and working patterns far more likely to be found amongst white men, or indeed seen as inherently male. D. What should be asked of employers is not that they accept less qualified, less able women or minorities in preference to white men but that they rethink what the job requires does not rule out competent women or minorities. IV. Misconceptions of Affirmative ActionsA. Affirmative action is a growing argument among our society. B. It is multifaceted and can be defined in two ways.1. First as the ability to strive for equality and inclusiveness.2. Second as a quote-based system for different minority groups.C. Those opposed to the idea of affirmative action feel that it is actually reversed discrimination at work and college entrances.1. But, by a recent study by Alfred Blumorosen, a professor at Rutgers University law school, found there were only a few dozen reported cases of reverse discrimination in federal courts over the past 4 years, most of which were rejected by the courts (Hugh 27).2. There is another misconception that affirmative action policies are taking away from a majority of acceptances into colleges away from whit...
