Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: gazit@cs.duke.EDU (Hillel Gazit) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Scholarly objective evaluations of AA Message-ID: <670157755@lear.cs.duke.edu> Date: 29 Mar 91 19:32:51 GMT References: cs.duke.edu> Organization: The Piranha Club Lines: 21 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu # Two women claimed that affirmative action for women is good for men, # and used some studies to justify their position. Would you, or them, # or the rest of net.feminists will think about reversing the argument # and claiming that affirmative action for "white ethnic males" will be # good for a woman? In article (Muffy Barkocy) writes: >Sure, I'll think about it. So, what would an AA program for men be >like? Just like what AA programs for women have been claimed to be: between all candidates of equal qualification pick the "white ethnic male." >The point for minorities is to hire them "fairly," generally by >proportion of the population, right? For some reason the term "affirmative action program" causes you to think about quotas. Would you mind to explain why?