Discussion week 3 MAN444_1

Affirmative Action
Name Institution Affiliation Affirmative Action
Affirmative action insinuates active efforts towards implementing policies that enable equality in employment opportunities to all individuals of the society. Nationality, religion, sex, and caste are the critical components considered when actualizing affirmative action. The ultimate goal of this is to remove preconceived opinions against recruiting or offering opportunities and promoting the perceived less fortunate members of the society as well as those who are under-represented. Affirmative action aims typically at making up for historical injustices or continual oppression of either racism or sexism and other circumstances that cause other groups to be disadvantaged such as the disabled (Arcidiacono, Lovenheim, and Zhu, 2015).
Affirmative action has however been a cause for contentions and heated endless arguments. There exist various ideologies and divisions of opinions on the same. The most talked of defense in favor of affirmative action in public colleges and universities is on the issue of diversity and inclusivity. The point of discussion has always been that there should be diverse people of race, color, sex, nationality and social class and not what affirmative action seems to advocate. In employment and recruiting in the USA, there is the promotion of the black minority candidates for hiring even at times at the expense of the white candidates. Such has led to high profile cases such as Regents of the University of California versus Allan Bakke.

As a result of this, the minority have in recent times been unfairly denied educational and employment opportunities (Kay, 2018).
The affirmative action commenced as a simple idea to widen the scope of equality but has changed and has become a basis for legal battles. The case of Allan Bake in 1978 ruled that the school where he was denied admission should admit him. It, however, did not ban the use of policies that aimed at revisiting present and past discrimination against minorities. Subsequently, public disfavor considerably up to the 1990s. Consequently, other legal cases have failed to address this issue. The more the cause to do away with the affirmative action laws in the modern workplace, environment, and society at large.
One federal judge narrated figuratively that this controversy is one of the enormous hurdles of the judiciary. Judicial precepts on affirmative actions are hence insignificant since they do so little to cause a change in the current dynamic society.

References
Arcidiacono, P., Lovenheim, M., & Zhu, M. (2015). Affirmative action in undergraduate education. Annu. Rev. Econ., 7(1), 487-518.
Kay, J. (2018, February 15). Jonathan Kay: Dalhousie University should just be honest about its affirmative-action hiring. Retrieved February 22, 2018, from http://nationalpost.com/opinion/jonathan-kay-dalhousie-university-should-just-be-honest-about-its-affirmative-action-hiring