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| 1-1 of 1Affirmative action flashcard sets | |||
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| 1 | Affirmative Action Supreme Court Casesby sophierose724 | 17 terms | March 31, 2009 |
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| affirmative action definitions | |||
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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities | 20 sets | |
| 2 | an active policy to hire and promote more minorities and women | 12 sets | |
| 3 | programs intended to make up for past discrimination by helping minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunities | 9 sets | |
| 4 | a policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group | 8 sets | |
| 5 | programs to try to make up for past discrimination | 5 sets | |
| 6 | programs designed to provide special help to people who have been disadvantaged because they belong to a certain group | 5 sets | |
| 7 | a policy that requires most employers take positive steps to remedy the effects of past discriminations | 5 sets | |
| 8 | a policy in educational admissions or job hiring that gives special attention or compensatory treatment to traditionally disadvantaged groups in an effort to overcome present effects of past discrimination. | 5 sets | |
| 9 | remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women. | 5 sets | |
| 10 | a policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group. | 5 sets | |
| 11 | a policy of creating opportunities for members of certain groups as a substantive remedy for past discrimination | 5 sets | |
| 12 | remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women | 4 sets | |
| 13 | government-mandated programs that seek to create special employment opportunities for blacks, women and other victims of past discrimination. | 4 sets | |
| 14 | lbj's executive order-designed to correct the effects of past discrimination; requirement by law that positive steps be taken to increase the number of minorities in business, schools, colleges, and labor | 4 sets | |
| 15 | programs designed to increase minority participation in some institution by taking positive steps to appoint more minority-group members. | 4 sets | |
| 16 | preference to minorities in jobs | 3 sets | |
| 17 | programs designed to increase minority participation in some institution by taking positive steps to appoint more minority-group members | 2 sets | |
| 18 | positive steps taken inorder to alleviate conditions resulting from past discrimination or from violations of a law. cases are considered to be strict scrutiny under 14th and 5th amend. | 2 sets | |
| 19 | a policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment of members of some previously disadvantaged group | 2 sets | |
| 20 | purposeful steps taken by an organization to created employment opportunities for minorities and women | 2 sets | |
| 21 | positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities | 2 sets | |
| 22 | showing a preference to minorities in jobs where they had previously been excluded | 2 sets | |
| 23 | policies that take race, gender, and ethnicity into consideration to promote equal opportunity; addressed healthcare, education, employment, etc.; goals: maximize diversity in all levels of society, redress disadvantages due to discrimination | 2 sets | |
| 24 | meant to offer equal opportunities for women and minorities | 2 sets | |
| 25 | programs set up to hire and promote minorities | 2 sets | |
| 26 | . | 2 sets | |
| 27 | a government policy related to women and minority groups | 2 sets | |
| 28 | a policy that goes beyond eeo by requiring orgs to comply with the law and correct past discriminatory practices by increasing the # of minorities and women in specific positions | 2 sets | |
| 29 | a policy that seeks to correct the effects of past discrimination by favoring the groups who were previously disadvantaged | 2 sets | |
| 30 | a policy calling for the establishment of programs that give preference, in jobs and college admissions, to members of groups that have been discriminated against in the past. | 2 sets | |
| 31 | prgrams designed to increase minority participation in some institution (busnesses, schools, labor unions, or government agencies) by taking positive steps to appoint more minority group members | 2 sets | |
| 32 | proggrams intended to make up for past discrimnation by helping minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunities | 2 sets | |
| 33 | progrmas that try to make up fir past dicrimination | 2 sets | |
| 34 | programs designed to increase minority participation in some institutions by taking positivie steps to appint more minority group members | 2 sets | |
| 35 | programs that try to make up for past discrimination | 2 sets | |
| 36 | employment activities designed to "right past wrongs" by increasing opportunities for minorities and women | 2 sets | |
| 37 | actions taken by businesses, colleges, the government, etc to increase the number of minorities and women in jobs and higher education. critics of this call it reverse discrimination. | 2 sets | |
| 38 | policies intended to improve the social standing of minority subject to past prejudice and discrimination | 2 sets | |
| 39 | program in areas such as employment and education to provide more opportunities for members of groups that faced discrimination in the past | 2 sets | |
| 40 | a progam, supported by law, requiring u.s. employers, labor unions, and other institutions to eliminate discrimination against women and minorities by increasing hiring, promotion, training, and other opportunities for members of these groups | 2 sets | |