Affirmative action in the United States tends to focus on issues such as education and employment, specifically granting special consideration to racial minorities, Native Americans, and women who have been historically excluded groups in America. Reports have shown that minorities and women have faced discrimination in schools and businesses for many years and this discrimination produced unfair advantages for whites and males in education and employment. The impetus toward affirmative action is redressing the disadvantages associated with past and present discrimination. Further impetus is a desire to ensure public institutions, such as universities, hospitals, and police forces, are more representative of the populations they serve. COUNT 4
QSN1 Outside of employment, what is the other main issue that affirmative action focuses on? ANS1 education QSN2 Affirmative action attempts to ask institutions to grant extra consideration to what group of people outside of Native Americans and women? ANS2 racial minorities QSN3 Studies showed that discrimination in both business sectors and education resulted in advantages for what group of people? ANS3 whites and males QSN4 Affirmative action does not only attempt to remove disadvantages, but also to ensure what about the number of people in a field? ANS4 are more representative of the populations they serve