Affirmative action

Equality Within the comforts of the modernized human civilization that we all experience upon a daily basis, a person can easily forget how privileged they are to be existing in such a time of human equality and take that for-granted. However, times were not always as pleasant as they currently are; different diversities of people were not only shamed for their race, gender or ethnicity, but they were abused for it. In addition to that, abuse of this kind happened less than a hundred years ago…

Discrimination means the practice of treating one group in society in an unfair way (LD384). The causes of the discrimination are various. Discrimination exist nowadays even in countries where freedom is believed strongly. In this democratic world, people still discriminate others.Gender discrimination often happens to women because they were born as women. Men keep discriminating women because they keep assuming that they are the ones who have the power over women. There is a taboo that…

constitutes sexual harassment in the social setting, and all people have both different circumstances and preferences. Fully understanding job policies is very important to avoiding the accusation of sexual harassment, this is an action that can be avoided. “Taking immediate action to investigate and address a situation where an employee reports sexual harassment can not only decrease or eliminate your organization’s liability, but it also lets employees know that this kind of inappropriate…

Allan P. Bakke was a 32 year old caucasian male who was denied admission into the University of California twice after applying to their medical program. Despite Bakke’s impressive academic record as National Merit Scholar, former Marine officer, and NASA engineer his race overshadowed his career accomplishments as he was denied entree solely due to his ethnicity. This lead to Bakke filing a suit against the university on the basis that their admission procedure violated the Fourteen Amendment…

Tamara, Prior to this unit I was not familiar with the legalities with genetic testing nor had I heard of any incidence within my organization. I agree with your discussion post, the manager likely was violating the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA). According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), “Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA), which prohibits genetic information discrimination in employment, took effect…

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) code of ethics was accepted on October 13, 1960. In the last 55 years, it has developed as the standard for defining the values and principles that guide our conduct in all social work areas. There have been seven modifications that have been made to the NASW code of ethics. The modifications took place in the years 1967, 1979, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, and 2008. The first revision that took place was in 1967. It was done to include…

The gender pay gap has been an issue with detrimental effects for far too long and action must be taken. Enforcing pay transparency is one way to remove opportunities for pay discrimination and help shift towards greater equality (GWGSSC, 2016). This can be done through employers providing information on pay setting philosophy, policies or procedures, or aggregated pay rates or ranges (GWGSSC, 2016). With the knowledge and recognition of pay rates or ranges, employees will recognize the need to…

Morgan Freeman had once said to end racism we just needed to ‘stop talking about it’. I completely agree because if we are ever going to get along, and function as individuals we need to end the talk of skin colors, and the idea of a supreme race. If we stop talking about race we stop talking about the idea of a superior race, and with the ending of that we can all see that we are all the same. We all eat, breath, and sleep to function, we all have the same organs, and the same skeleton. Granted…

Equality means treating everyone the same, and that everyone has the same opportunity to be the best they possibly can e.g. everyone gets education they need to get the career they want. Diversity means a range of difference of things e.g. culture or race. It’s important to promote equality and diversity because everyone can get the same service as the rest, which meets up to their personal needs. This can lead to a decrease of discrimination of others (treating a group of people or an…

The United States is a country founded on ideals and unfulfilled aspirations of a perfect nation in which all are equal and no one group of people has too much power. Our history is filled with the constant struggle between fulfilling those ideals and maintaining status quo and allowing the nation to stagnate or regress allowing inequality to reign and certain groups to control the country. While our nation has struggled on this point it bears to ask whether real political and social change is…