Affirmative Action and Black Employment

Was affirmative action successful in increasing employment opportunities for blacks? In this paper, affirmative action will refer to the provisions of Lyndon Johnson's Executive Order 11246 in 1965, as amended by Richard Nixon's Executive Order 11375 [3 C.F.R. 169 (1974)]. Under Executive Order 11246, federal contractors agree “not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, nor national origin, and to take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex or national origin” [3 C.F.R. 169 202(1) (1974)].

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6 Affirmative Action and Black Employment

Blacks and the Quest for Economic Equality ◽

10.1515/9780271056647-008 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 121-152

Keyword(s):

Affirmative Action ◽

Black Employment

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Speaking in one voice: the response of higher education to affirmative action threats

Journal of Dental Education ◽

10.1002/j.0022-0337.1999.63.10.tb03312.x ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 63 (10) ◽

pp. 753-758

Author(s):

H Garza

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Affirmative Action

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Affirmative Action and Leadership Attitudes in Brazilian Women Managers

Journal of Personnel Psychology ◽

10.1027/1866-5888/a000039 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 139-143 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Gazi Islam ◽

Sarah E. S. Zilenovsky

Keyword(s):

Affirmative Action ◽

Latin American ◽

Women Managers ◽

Psychological Effects ◽

Preferential Selection ◽

Justice Perceptions ◽

First Time ◽

The Relationship

This note examines the relationship between affirmative action (AA) program perceptions and women’s self-ascribed capacity and desire to become leaders. We propose that women who believe that their organization implements a program of preferential selection toward women will experience negative psychological effects leading to lowered self-expectations for leadership, but that this effect will be moderated by their justice perceptions of AA programs. We test this proposition empirically for the first time with a Latin American female sample. Among Brazilian women managers, desire but not self-ascribed capacity to lead was reduced when they believed an AA policy was in place. Both desire’s and capacity’s relationships with belief in an AA policy were moderated by justice perceptions.

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Affirming Affirmative Action

Contemporary Psychology ◽

10.1037/028952 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 35 (8) ◽

pp. 797-798

Author(s):

Phyllis A. Katz

Keyword(s):

Affirmative Action

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