Affirmative Action Equality for All? For the past one hundred and fifty years, the fight against discrimination has been a long, hard, and vastly debated topic. Many people thank the pioneering ideas and hard work from various minority and women organizations for enriching this nation with its diverse workforce. While at the same time, many others claim that affirmative action is destroying what is left of our independent, self-merited natures. Forty years ago, minorities were predominantly confined to low paying jobs with little to no hope for advancement, and women were widely held to be...

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Tribunals The EOC has looked at 54 employment tribunal decisions, in sexual harassment cases that were heard between 1998 and 2001, to see what those cases revealed. Successful cases The employee Thirty-four cases were successful. In three of those cases the person making the complaint was male. In most cases the harassment began while the person bringing the complaint had been working for that employer for less than one year, and their work tended to be low paid (e.g carers, shop and factory workers, office staff). Shift work was a factor in a third of cases. ...

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