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Affirmative Action's Fight Against Racism and Sexism
Contrary to popular opinion, affirmative action does not only function for the benefit of blacks, but other minorities and women. Affiramtive action is a policy born in the civil rights era about three decades ago. Currently, affirmative action has been in the hot seat for Flo ....
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.... as well as other minorities (notably hispanics), also benefit from affirmative action. In 1979, women represented on 4% of the entry-level offices in the San Francisco Police Department. By 1985, under an affirmative action plan ordered in a case in which the Department of Justice sued the city for discrimination, the numbers of women in the entry class had risen by 14.5%. Considering how hispanics, it is proven that hispanic men earn 81% of the wages earned as white men with the same education. Hispanic women receive even less, earning 65% of the income earned by wh ....
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