Coke "Passes" First Diversity Test This article talks about Coca-Cola's past experiences with minorities and women fairness issues. Until recently Coca-Cola's has been discriminatory towards its minority and woman employees with regard to promotions, pay raises and job evaluations. There have be...
The interpretations gave universities the "three-pronged equal opportunities test," this test was to ensure that they were complying with Title IX: "(1) universities must provide equal financial assistance to "members of each sex participating in intercollegiate athletics.... " (117) These three tests are known as the substantially proportionate test, program expansion test, and the interests and abilities test. ... The Manual's purpose was, "to aid institutions having difficulty determining which interest and abilities accommodations test to apply.... The ...
Unfortunately the city of New Haven was not pleased with the results of the test and failed to certify the results. ... In an effort by the city to help ensure a fair testing process compliant with Title VII Civil Rights act they hired a professional testing company, IO Solutions, Inc. to design and administer a race neutral examination process. ... Out of the top ten scores on the test eight were white, and two were hispanic. This means that in order to fill the vacancies from the test scores no blacks would have been promoted. ... This is despite that the test was found to be free of racia...
Lastly, Jendian introduced us to "Implicit Association Tests Bias " a test that showed hidden race biases in our unconscious mind. I took three different race bias tests and on all three I was scored to have strong bias against black people. The test was about relating words to black and white faces and my scores showed that I unconsciously associated blacks with being lazy, violent or aggressive. ... PART II: I was shocked to see my results on the Implicit Bias test, because I never considered myself to be racist whatsoever. ...
Some people have suggested that the employment system should work on a color-blind test (Plous). The color blind test is a method where race is not mentioned on applications. Employers determine how qualified an individual is by administering a test (Benoit). ... The color-blind test ultimately favors Caucasian people, even though it is meant to be fair. ... Caucasians usually come from better neighborhoods, translating to better schooling, better test scores, better dress, and a better overall image. ...
Minority students are further disadvantaged when applying to college, because standardized test scores are biased against them. ... For example, Finnish people are seen as inferior in Sweden, and perform poorly on tests there; however, they perform well on tests in Australia, where they are not discriminated against. These studies suggest that standardized test scores are unintentionally biased against Americans who suffer a lower position in the U.S. social structure, namely African-Americans and Hispanics. This is one reason that affirmative action is needed to combat this bias by seeking to...
Niccol specifies the presence of clinics where human DNA can be "sequenced" by prospective partners to test their worth. The corruption is emphasized by an unknown woman who is having traces of DNA tested from the saliva on her lips of a man she "just kissed five minutes ago". ...
The support for this lies in the lop-sided SAT scores, because, according to the SAT test results, "on average, black Americans are significantly less intelligent than whites" (Feagin, 244). ... There have been advances in test scores in recent history, however their "improvement is not enough to gain entry without racial preferences today" (Glazer, 52). ... However, it has also been stated that African American students who attend nonselective institutions with lower test scores suffer negative academic consequences (Konrad, 437). ... Another case of intentionally lowering standards is in...
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and other such requirements used to restrict blacks from voting were made illegal. ... Allen Bakke in 1977, was twice denied admission to a California medical school despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Allan Bakke took his grievance to court and set of a major controversy. ... Bakke's college GPA and test scores exceeded those of any of the minority students admitted in the two years he was rejected. ...
People often refer to IQ tests to determine intelligence but according to the Atlantic, "[people who discriminate racially based off IQ tests] misunderstand the implications of what those tests indicate even when they are credible; and they fail to find the moral, analytic, and political response to the questions of race and intelligence....
This legislation, along with an executive order in 1965, helped blacks by forcing businesses receiving federal funds to stop using aptitude tests and other criteria that tended to discriminate against blacks ("affirmative action"). ... In colleges across the country, African-Americans and Hispanics are being admitted at the expense of Caucasians and Asians with higher standardized test scores and high school GPAs for the sake of diversity. ... At the University of Michigan, perhaps the finest public university next to Cal-Berkeley, "the admission rate exceeded 90% for all 'underrepresente...
When the word bigotry is uttered, various scenarios enter one's mind. Ideas of slavery in ancient cultures, the attempted wiping out of a particular ethnic group, slave plantations in Pre-Civil War America, and the women's suffrage movements in various parts of the world over the last century are just a few which come to mind. Yet bigotry can exist in very slight-of-hand ways, from "dumb-blonde" jokes, to dishonest hiring practices concerning racial minorities. Perhaps the most notable forms of bigotry are sexism and racism, particulary since their struggles and overcoming of which i...
The tests aren't able to measure the "stature and potential of an individual" such as what obstacles they have had to overcome or what their life experiences have been. In addition, proponents of affirmative action, like David Broder, claim that the diversity achieved through such programs allows blacks and whites and all people for that matter " to engage in educational discourse and join one another in testing the rigors of the mind." ...
In this case, the Duke Power Company required employees to have a high school diploma and pass a written test for advancement. ... It was communicated by the court that the intent was not to "preclude the use of testing or measuring procedures, but it does proscribe giving them controlling force unless they are demonstrably a reasonable measure of job performance". This statement allows for the fact that there are requirements and tests directly applicable to jobs, and that it was not the intent of the court to make these illegal. ...
This paper is based upon the argument present in issue 19 in the Taking Sides book. The book asks if affirmative action programs in public school admissions policies violate the fourteenth amendment. Not only will I prove how affirmative action policies violate the fourteenth amendment, I will ill...
Over the past fifty years the workplace has changed dramatically, from a place of professionalism, to one where social issues are rampant. What was once being pushed into the dark corners of businesses, is now being brought out into the public eye. These issues encompass discrimination, substance...
Furthermore, standardized exams as the IQ tests that pertain to certain culture with the whole knowledge, attitude and Idioms etc. must be culture free so people can have better chances to enter good universities and to get scholarships. ...
Researchers in the article Identifying Discrimination at Work: the Use of Field Experiments, explore the social problem of discrimination which is observed in the workplace. Discrimination at work is generally understood as an unwanted, unfair and unethical behavior at work place on the basis of som...
a lot about subcultures, there is a subculture called "straight-edge- that condone a sex, drug, and alcohol free lifestyle in comparison to subculture, a counterculture is something that goes against regular culture (for example, anarchists and punks) each society and culture creates its own mores, values, norms, traditions, and taboos, and the rules for "breaking- those about socialization and the effects of isolation (Anna, Isabelle, and Genie from Ch. 5) parental characteristics such as level of education, religious orientation, economic status, cultural heritage and occupational b...
Affirmative Action: Dismantle or Remantle? Affirmative action was a policy that was brought about as an attempt to bring reconciliation after the civil rights movement of the 1960's. The initial principal that birthed Affirmative Action as a policy or law of the land, was to create a means by ...
Reaching a Resolution: The Equity of Title IX Is it possible for men to be discriminated against? Does it really happen? What is gender equity? How equal are we? Many men and women alike love sports, and to discriminate against a certain sex by not providing them with the opportunity to pa...
Considering the subject of affirmative action the following questions frequently are raised: Is there a clear understanding of affirmative action roles/goals? What are the pros/cons of these programs? What are the "loop holes" in the system? Does seniority play a role in affirmative action? Addressi...
Considering the subject of affirmative action the following questions frequently are raised: Is there a clear understanding of affirmative action roles/goals? What are the pros/cons of these programs? What are the loop holes in the system? Does seniority play a role in affirmative action? Addressing...
