ated a permanent equal employment opportunity commission to enforce it’s provisions. The act also or the first time included obligations not to discriminate to private employees, labor unions, and governmental agencies (Urofsky 17). But, even with these laws in effect equal opportunity is far from a matter of “following a simple program”(Webb 545). 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. 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. 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. Affirmative action was originally designed to help minorities, but women especially have made the greatest gains as a result of these programs. Affirmative Action is a growing argument among our society. It is multifaceted ans very often defined vaguely, many people define AA as the ability to strive for equality and inclusiveness. Others might see it as a quote-based system for different minority groups. I feel that AA is praiseworthy for the simple fact that it can help qualified people get the jobs they deserve. Thanks to today’s interpretation and enforcement situations like the one I just mentioned are becoming rarer. It has helped women and minorities to further their careers. According to the Affirmative Action web site women now hold 40% of all corporate middle-management jobs, and the number of women-owned businesses has more than doubled since 1982. But, this is just the beginning, the National Organizatio...
