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Understanding affirmative action
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This review outlines how affirmative action operates in employment and education settings and considers the major points of controversy.Abstract:
Affirmative action is a controversial and often poorly understood policy. It is also a policy that has been widely studied by social scientists. In this review, we outline how affirmative action operates in employment and education settings and consider the major points of controversy. In addition, we detail the contributions of psychologists and other social scientists in helping to demonstrate why affirmative action is needed; how it can have unintended negative consequences; and how affirmative action programs can be most successful. We also review how psychologists have examined variations in people's attitudes toward affirmative action, in part as a means for testing different theories of social behavior.read more
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The stigma of affirmative action: : A stereotyping- based theory and meta-analytic test of the consequences for performance.
TL;DR: In this article, the negative effect of Affirmative Action Plans (AAPs) on targets' self-evaluated and objective performance is driven by perceptions of low self-competence, negative state affect, and perceived stereotyping by others.
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Pipeline programs in the health professions, part 1: preserving diversity and reducing health disparities.
TL;DR: Anti-affirmative action initiatives threaten the existence of these student preparation programs and the ability of the nation to produce physicians of color and other health care providers who are more likely to serve in underrepresented communities and work to reduce related health disparities.
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Reframing the Business Case for Diversity: A Values and Virtues Perspective
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Diversity at Work: Diversity initiative effectiveness: What organizations can (and cannot) expect from diversity recruitment, diversity training, and formal mentoring programs
Carol T. Kulik,Loriann Roberson +1 more
TL;DR: The organizational literature began emphasizing the "business case" for diversity in the late 1980s (Cox and Blake, 1991; Johnston and Packer, 1987; Robinson and Dechant, 1997) as discussed by the authors.
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Women’s Political Engagement Under Quota-Mandated Female Representation Evidence From a Randomized Policy Experiment
TL;DR: This paper found that having a quota-mandated female representative either has no effect on or actually reduces several dimensions of women's self-reported engagement with local politics, and that the quota effect is not accounted for by differences in qualifications or competence between the different groups of councilors, but rather stems from citizens' negative reactions to the quota's design.
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