However, a recent statewide study of affirmative action practices concluded that "whites are the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action programs affecting hiring - this includes large numbers of white men as well as white women." ... Affirmative action is only utilized for job classifications where women, people of color, and persons with disabilities are underrepresented within the work force. ... It can also be compared to Aristotle's theory on moral virtue. ...
There were the high ranked kings and thanes, and there were the low class slaves and even women (Crossley 61). ... The idea of inequality goes even as far back as Aristotle when he stated: The universe resembles a large and well-regulated family, in which all the officers and servants, and even the domestic animals, are subservient to each other in a proper subordination; each enjoys the privileges and perquisites peculiar to his place, and at the same time contributes, by just that subordination, to the magnificence and happiness of the whole. ... Because individuals had a judgement on ineq...