Word: quota
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bill was intended to counter a series of Supreme Court decisions that make it more difficult for workers to win job-discrimination lawsuits. Democrats accuse the President of playing racial politics, preferring to flog the quota issue in next year's election rather than pass an effective...
...Smith, 40, a black 18-year veteran of the Chicago police force, affirmative action means frustration. Since 1973, court-ordered hiring quotas and the aggressive recruitment of minorities have expanded black representation on the 12,004-member force from 16% to 24%. Smith contends, however, that gender and race have not opened doors for him but shut them. He has been denied promotion to sergeant so that Hispanics and females who scored lower on exams could be given the higher-ranking positions set aside for those groups. He worries that even if he is promoted, the achievement...
...Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has become one of the government's two main enforcers of affirmative-action policy. It oversees 225,000 companies, with a combined work force of 28 million, that do business with the Federal Government. In 1971 Nixon's Labor Department started the Philadelphia Plan, a quota system & that required federal contractors in Philadelphia, and later Washington, to employ a fixed number of minorities...
...idea of affirmative action is that employers should take the time to actively seek out qualified minorities for jobs. This does not mean refusing to hire a qualified white in order to fill a quota. It means acknowledging that minorities who are just as qualified may be more difficult to find. It means investing the time in an extended job search to find them. It means recognizing that changing longstanding inequality in society takes work...
...also understand an aversion to quota systems and reverse discrimination. In fact, such aversion has prompted the Supreme Court to weaken many affirmative action laws. That is why it is incumbent on employers to hire in the Spirit of affirmative action--a spirit which rejects reverse discrimination, but encourages an extra effort in finding qualified minorities. If Harvard students refuse to take the lead in such cases, inequality will persist beyond a resident tutor post...