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Affirmative Action: Presented By: Sudeep Gupta Hemant Silotia Mohd. Shauzab Kazmi Stuti Garg Shantanu Sharma

This document summarizes the key aspects of affirmative action. It begins by defining affirmative action and positive action as policies that consider factors like race, ethnicity, and gender to promote equal opportunity and diversity in areas like employment, education, contracting, and health programs. It then provides some background, noting that the term originated in the US from a Kennedy executive order. Proponents argue these policies help address covert and institutional discrimination, while opponents believe they amount to reverse discrimination and can lower standards. The document outlines types of affirmative action and debates both sides of the issue over three paragraphs.

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Affirmative Action: Presented By: Sudeep Gupta Hemant Silotia Mohd. Shauzab Kazmi Stuti Garg Shantanu Sharma

This document summarizes the key aspects of affirmative action. It begins by defining affirmative action and positive action as policies that consider factors like race, ethnicity, and gender to promote equal opportunity and diversity in areas like employment, education, contracting, and health programs. It then provides some background, noting that the term originated in the US from a Kennedy executive order. Proponents argue these policies help address covert and institutional discrimination, while opponents believe they amount to reverse discrimination and can lower standards. The document outlines types of affirmative action and debates both sides of the issue over three paragraphs.

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Affirmative Action

Presented By:
Sudeep Gupta
Hemant Silotia
Mohd. Shauzab Kazmi
Stuti Garg
Shantanu Sharma
Affirmative action and positive action
refer to policies that take
race,
ethnicity, or
gender
into consideration in an attempt to promote
equal opportunity or increase ethnic or
other forms of diversity. The focus of such
policies ranges from employment and
education to public contracting and health
programs.
The term "affirmative action"
originated in the United States, and
first appeared in President John F
Kennedy’s Executive order.
It is an attempt to promote Equal
opportunity.
The force towards affirmative action
is twofold:

1.To maximize diversity in all levels of


society, along with its supposed
benefits, and..
2.To restore perceived disadvantages
due to clear, institutional, or
involuntary discrimination.
Proponents of affirmative action
argue,
that the disproportionate
representations, results from covert,
institutionalized and involuntary forms
of discriminations that permeates the
fabric of society; particularly in
societies that have had a long history
of racial, ethinic, or sex based
discrimination.
Such acts of discrimination may take
many forms. Some are overt such as
stereotypes
(Eg. Women are only fit to be
secretaries and housewives, and
blacks are great entertainers and
sportsmen—modern day gladiators
but little else).
Others are covert, such as "old boys"
clubs, that tend to favor racially
similar new members
Myths
One can not hope to create a color blind society by
practicing color blind policies

While a few studies claimed that affirmative action


undermined the self-esteem of women and minorities,

The claim that one can not redress one form of


discrimination by introducing another is a play on words
that uses the same word "discrimination" to refer to two
different things. Racial, ethnic or sex based discrimination
is often based on unfounded, often irrational and deeply
ingrained prejudices.

Affirmative action is a response to a statistically observed


inequity in representation, reproducibly demonstrated by
social scientists in many societies with a history of
discrimination
Types

Affirmative action is generally


established for:

Racial minorities.
Ethnic minorities.
Underprivileged castes
(such as in India).
Women.
The physically disabled.
Those who served in the
military.
Opponent Argument

Some opponents say affirmative action devalues the accomplishments


of people who are chosen because of the social group to which they
belong rather than their qualifications.[

Some people also feel that affirmative action is discrimination in itself


since it judges people by their ethnicity.

Opponents, who sometimes call affirmative action "reverse


discrimination," further claim that affirmative action has undesirable
side-effects in addition to failing to achieve its goals.

They argue that it hinders reconciliation, replaces old wrongs with


new wrongs, undermines the achievements of minorities, and

encourages groups to identify themselves as disadvantaged, even if


they are not.

It may increase racial tension and benefit the more privileged people
within minority groups at the expense of the least fortunate within
majority groups (such as lower-class whites)
Conclusion
The motto of affirmative action is to
promote societal equality through the
preferential treatment of
socioeconomically disadvantaged
people. Often, these people are
disadvantaged for historical reasons,
such as oppression or slavery. But
that shouldn’t be the case, As no one
has the right to do that… As even
God never gave it a thought…..!!!
THANK YOU
It may be true that the law cannot
make a man love me, but it can
keep him from lynching me, and I
think that's pretty important. 
Author: Martin Luther King Jr. 

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