Affirmative_Action_At_Work

Affirmative Action At Work Affirmative Action is defined by Webster's New World College Dictionary as " a policy or program for correcting the effects of discrimination in the employment or education of members of certain groups." The phrase "affirmative action" was coined by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 when he issued Executive Order 10925, initiating the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued another Executive Order. This order required federal contractors to take "affirmative action" to increase the number of minorities that they employed. Thus affirmative action was born. However, when Kennedy and Johnson established affirmative action, they did not intend for it to have the perverted and distorted effect that it currently has today. Such perversions and distortions include the hiring of unqualified workers, the causing of problems for groups it originally set out to help, and reverse discrimination that results in unfair standards into higher education and the work force. The practice of affirmative action must be stopped. The main argument for affirmative action is that it creates equal opportunity for people in the work force and for students seeking admission into higher education. However, this is not a valid point. While affirmative action creates affirmative, action, discrimination, minorities, reverse, white, however, employees, work, qualified, problems, often, minority, job, university, universities, therefore, reason, problem, policy, place, order, kennedy, johnson, individuals, hiring, higher, employee, education, colleges, college, because, workers, unqualified, stopped, set, receive, quotas, president, point, phds, originally, opportunity, males, make, jobs, institutions, hire, help, groups