Word: equal
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...various presidential executive orders which created what is called affirmative action derive their existence from the pressures created by minorities and women during the sixties. The demands of women and minorities for equal and full protection under the law and the demand for an end to discriminatory practices in employment resulted in Executive Order 11246 and Executive Order 11375. These two orders taken together outlined the federal government's position on discrimination in hiring and employment, saying in effect that the government will not be party to, nor support, nor award any contracts to institutions that practice discrimination...
...contract in excess of $50,000 to develop and maintain a written affirmative action program, including directions for analyses of the contractor's work force and employment practices, steps to be taken to improve recruitment, hiring, and promotion of minority persons and women, and other specific procedures to assure equal employment opportunity. When Bok complains of federal interference in the business of academia, he means more pointedly Revised Order No. 4. It is this law he would like to see changed...
...contractor's policies and practices on promotion should be made reasonably explicit and should be administered to ensure that women and minorities are not at a disadvantage. A contractor is also obligated to make special efforts to ensure that women and minorities in its work force are given equal opportunity for promotion. This result may be achieved through remedical, work study and job training programs; through career counseling programs; and by the validation of all criteria for promotion. Yet promotional opportunities are often not posted in areas where current employees who are eligible for promotion circulate. Last year two Cook...
...Task Force concurs with Leonard in this. It is clear that the affirmative action office does not have the power to effectively promote equal employment opportunity for women and minorities. According to Leonard, some of the substantial discrepancies between the requirements of Revised Order No. 4 and the submissions of the autonomous schools and departments have been repeatedly drawn to the attention of the deans and department chairmen, yet the deficiences have not been corrected. The problem with affirmative action at Harvard University has very little to do with Leonard. The problem has to do with a generalized resistance...
...arrangement with the consortium allows the dean to make recommendations on the IMCI plans, as long as he submits his proposals to the Harvard faculty first. But the faculty must see that it is hypocritical for them as members of a medical school increasingly concerned with the equal distribution of health care to be connected--even unofficially--to a regime that patently ignores its citizens' well-being. Dean Ebert should resign as an ex-officio member of the medical school consortium, citing political reasons...