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| 1-1 of 1Affirmative action flashcard sets | |||
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| # | Title | Terms | Date |
| 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 | 10 sets | |
| 3 | programs intended to make up for past discrimination by helping minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunities | 8 sets | |
| 4 | a policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group | 6 sets | |
| 5 | programs designed to provide special help to people who have been disadvantaged because they belong to a certain group | 5 sets | |
| 6 | 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 | |
| 7 | programs to try to make up for past discrimination | 5 sets | |
| 8 | a policy that requires most employers take positive steps to remedy the effects of past discriminations | 5 sets | |
| 9 | remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women. | 5 sets | |
| 10 | a policy of creating opportunities for members of certain groups as a substantive remedy for past discrimination | 5 sets | |
| 11 | a policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group. | 5 sets | |
| 12 | government-mandated programs that seek to create special employment opportunities for blacks, women and other victims of past discrimination. | 4 sets | |
| 13 | programs designed to increase minority participation in some institution by taking positive steps to appoint more minority-group members. | 4 sets | |
| 14 | remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women | 3 sets | |
| 15 | 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 | 3 sets | |
| 16 | preference to minorities in jobs | 3 sets | |
| 17 | program in areas such as employment and education to provide more opportunities for members of groups that faced discrimination in the past | 2 sets | |
| 18 | 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 | |
| 19 | positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities | 2 sets | |
| 20 | . | 2 sets | |
| 21 | a policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment of members of some previously disadvantaged group | 2 sets | |
| 22 | showing a preference to minorities in jobs where they had previously been excluded | 2 sets | |
| 23 | employment activities designed to "right past wrongs" by increasing opportunities for minorities and women | 2 sets | |
| 24 | programs set up to hire and promote minorities | 2 sets | |
| 25 | 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 | |
| 26 | 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 | |
| 27 | purposeful steps taken by an organization to created employment opportunities for minorities and women | 2 sets | |
| 28 | a policy that seeks to correct the effects of past discrimination by favoring the groups who were previously disadvantaged | 2 sets | |
| 29 | 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 | |
| 30 | programs designed to increase minority participation in some institutions by taking positivie steps to appint more minority group members | 2 sets | |
| 31 | meant to offer equal opportunities for women and minorities | 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 | 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 | |
| 34 | 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 | |
| 35 | programs that try to make up for past discrimination | 2 sets | |
| 36 | a government policy related to women and minority groups | 2 sets | |
| 37 | progrmas that try to make up fir past dicrimination | 2 sets | |
| 38 | programs designed to increase minority participation in some institution by taking positive steps to appoint more minority-group members | 2 sets | |
| 39 | a government policy meant to make up for past discrimination of women and minorities | 1 set | |
| 40 | involved making special efforts to hire or enroll groups that have suffered discrimination. | 1 set | |