Word: genderism
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While presidential politics captured most of the national attention two weeks ago, the public voted on major policy issues as well. In California, Proposition 209 became a reality. Now, any affirmative action based on race, gender or ethnicity in the state is illegal, whether in the public sector, education or employment. It seems California residents acted a little prematurely; this country still has racial barriers to overcome. Last Friday, a mere two weeks after Prop. 209 passed, Texaco Inc. agreed to pay $140 million, the largest settlement ever in a racial discrimination case, on behalf of all its minority employees...
...glass ceiling may not be all that amazing, but the racially disparaging comments made by senior executives at the company and incidentally captured on tape come as a surprise. Affirmative action would ensure diversity--ethnic, gender and racial--in the upper ranks of organizations. Prejudice stems largely from ignorance, which we are often accustomed to think of as intellectual ignorance. But ignorance also means unfamiliarity. Since these executives had deliberately kept minorities out of the top ranks, they were not used to working with them on equal status. Texaco did have an official affirmative action policy; had it actually ensured...
...rules of affirmative action no longer apply. Only when organizations are already unfair to minorities is affirmative action truly a burden. Although affirmative action may not be needed in some areas of the nation, to eliminate it entirely is premature. It assumes that no barriers due to race or gender exist. We all would love to eliminate affirmative action. But some of us are prepared to wait until it is no longer needed...
Still, Clinton's victory hardly lacked for breadth. He won every state he captured in 1992 as well as Florida, a key state that eluded him that year. Clinton opened the gender gap to a stunning 16 points, nearly twice the previous record, while Dole ran 11 points ahead among white men. The President won the votes of 1 in 5 self-described conservatives; 1 in 4 members of the religious right; 1 in 8 Republicans; half the nation's Catholic voters. Clinton ran well ahead of Dole among every age group, including senior citizens, but among voters...
...worry, and they should. Women, the new swing vote, more or less deserted them. The old swing vote, blue-collar Reagan Democrats, who are culturally conservative but not so crazy about Big Business, drifted away after Pat Buchanan faded. In polls conducted only days before the election, practically every gender, racial and age group favored Clinton except for households with incomes over $75,000. The latter group constitutes about 12% of the country. This is not good news for the Republican future...