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1Affirmative Action Supreme Court Casesby sophierose72417 termsMarch 31, 2009
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affirmative action definitions
# Definition Sets
1a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities20 sets
2an active policy to hire and promote more minorities and women12 sets
3programs intended to make up for past discrimination by helping minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunities9 sets
4a policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group8 sets
5programs to try to make up for past discrimination5 sets
6programs designed to provide special help to people who have been disadvantaged because they belong to a certain group5 sets
7a policy that requires most employers take positive steps to remedy the effects of past discriminations5 sets
8a 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
9remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.5 sets
10a policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group.5 sets
11a policy of creating opportunities for members of certain groups as a substantive remedy for past discrimination5 sets
12remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women4 sets
13government-mandated programs that seek to create special employment opportunities for blacks, women and other victims of past discrimination.4 sets
14lbj'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 labor4 sets
15programs designed to increase minority participation in some institution by taking positive steps to appoint more minority-group members.4 sets
16preference to minorities in jobs3 sets
17programs designed to increase minority participation in some institution by taking positive steps to appoint more minority-group members2 sets
18positive 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
19a policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment of members of some previously disadvantaged group2 sets
20purposeful steps taken by an organization to created employment opportunities for minorities and women2 sets
21positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities2 sets
22showing a preference to minorities in jobs where they had previously been excluded2 sets
23policies 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 discrimination2 sets
24meant to offer equal opportunities for women and minorities2 sets
25programs set up to hire and promote minorities2 sets
26.2 sets
27a government policy related to women and minority groups2 sets
28a 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 positions2 sets
29a policy that seeks to correct the effects of past discrimination by favoring the groups who were previously disadvantaged2 sets
30a 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
31prgrams designed to increase minority participation in some institution (busnesses, schools, labor unions, or government agencies) by taking positive steps to appoint more minority group members2 sets
32proggrams intended to make up for past discrimnation by helping minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunities2 sets
33progrmas that try to make up fir past dicrimination2 sets
34programs designed to increase minority participation in some institutions by taking positivie steps to appint more minority group members2 sets
35programs that try to make up for past discrimination2 sets
36employment activities designed to "right past wrongs" by increasing opportunities for minorities and women2 sets
37actions 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
38policies intended to improve the social standing of minority subject to past prejudice and discrimination2 sets
39program in areas such as employment and education to provide more opportunities for members of groups that faced discrimination in the past2 sets
40a 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 groups2 sets