Affirmative action
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The term affirmative action (also positive discrimination) refers to policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in an attempt to promote equal opportunity. The focus of such policies ranges from employment and public contracting to educational outreach and health programs (such as breast or prostate cancer screenings). The impetus towards affirmative action is twofold: to maximize the benefits of diversity in all levels of society, and to redress disadvantages due to overt, institutional, or involuntary discrimination.
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See also
- Achievement gap in the United States
- Affirmative action bake sale
- Angry white male
- Civil and political rights
- Disability rights movement
- Diversity (business)
- Diversity training
- Economic discrimination
- Equal opportunity
- Ethnic penalty
- "Harrison Bergeron"
- Jewish quota
- Legacy preferences
- Minority rights
- Multiculturalism
- Numerus clausus
- Political correctness
- Positive liberty
- Principle-policy puzzle
- Progressive stack
- Quotaism
- Reasonable accommodation
- Special measures for gender equality in the United Nations
- Strong-basis-in-evidence standard
- Social justice
- Tokenism
- White guilt
- Women's rights
- Substantive equality
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