How did white women come to be included in affirmative action?

Question

I don't recall white women fighting for affirmative action yet they have benefited more than black women and haven't been any fairer than white men in their treatment of minorities. I thought affirmative action was to correct racial injustice. Please enlighten me.

Answer 1

Could you cite studies stating European-American Women benifit more from it please? Affirmative action is for minorities, and women (africian american women included) routinely get paid less and have fewer post-graduate educational opportunities and fewer opportunities for promotion. Some affirmitive action programs target certain groups (Latino Americans, African Americans, Women, etc) because that minority group might be lacking from a certain field (with women, engineering). I was not personally involved in the women's right's movement, but I benifit from it. Many if not most ethnic minorities today were not, personally, involved in the affirmitive action movement but benifit from it. I know that educational opportunities and other areas of life life, in general, are quanitatively and qualitatively measured more difficultly for African American Women in many ways than it is for European-American (White) Women. African American Men actually have the worse odds of any minority group, when it comes to college, probability of incarciration, etc. European-American Men have long tried to say that affrimitive action harmed them, and I would be wary of trying to say that any group was harming your chances of affirmitive action because ethnicity, class, gender, religion, and sexual orientation all play a part in someone's chances of succeeding in life and you must analyse these parts together, not apart. I would say that class currently affects people as much as ethnicity, and that class is going to overtake race in the next biggest discriminator in the U.S.A. in the 21st century, but that would be my opinion based on what I have seen and read.

Answer 2

This is the best question I have ever answered.
White women were included as part of a gender class not a race. By adding them, it swelled the numbers of people covered by Affirmative Action to a point where anyone who championed AA, had a significant majority behind them on the public discussion of the matter. White women are not discriminated against in the same numbers as any racial group...yet we are in a sense calling women's gender a minority. As a group women out number men all over the world. They are not statsically a minority.......I wish I could give you the 10 points on this question.

Answer 3

Affirmative action, collectively as the intentions are sturdy, additionally leads lots of people who're aided by making use of it to not concentration lots on in the present day-up transforming into to be extra qualified than yet another candidate. collectively as there'll continually be a minimum of a few those with discriminatory hiring practices, by making use of the comparable token, there will be people who will use affirmative action as an undemanding way out. I do agree that white women human beings for the main section earnings the main from AA, and that they don't seem to be disregarded of people who additionally count number on affirmative action as a potential to get greater up. yet another concern i will say is that affirmative action does not help all minorities. Generically-named minority scholarships (in different words, non-racially-particular scholarships) are actually not offered to Asians, no rely the abilities. Affirmative action oftentimes has the comparable effect with Asians... none. and that's with the aid of entire stereotype that Asians are efficient, so that they don't choose help, yet does that make an Asian any much less of a minority? final I checked, Asians have been certainly not interior maximum human beings by making use of an prolonged shot.

Answer 4

Really? DO you really think that white women are not similar to black women? Why would you think that? White women in society for years have never been thought of that highly as you may think. I have worked for years in the white mans world.....as an accountant...and I can tell you that I was never treated fairly....in any way...the white man always won over me........however, I think that black women have made great strides in realizing that they have a voice.......I support everything you dream about....as someone who grew up in a lower middle class world I know what you go thru....I have been there in every way....in high school I was the only white woman in our track team......they always put me down in a fun way and I never thought that I wasn't a part of the team....these gals made me feel good even though they made fun of me....I was on the other side and I knew that these wonderful black women would be important some day.....it's now several years later....most of these women have become popular people in society....they are wonderful and still my friends...I am a woman that didnt' know what affirmative action meant back then...but I can tell you.......why do we need it? We are equal today...do we need it? Do you really know what it means? Racial injustice...I am white and I know that I went to a school with more blacks than whites.....I was accepted and I also helped my friends..who were black..they helped me too. I don't think that affirmtive action should be anything that we need to concentrate on today...where have you been? My dear?

Answer 5

The answer to your question is simple:
Women of different races are historically new to the work place. The poor treatment of women in the work place isn't new at all. White women were allowed into corporations first and therefore have been putting up with poor treatment longer. If anything, you should thank them. Because of their hard work, you can now sue over sexual harassment as well as racial discrimination. That makes you untouchable in the work place, even if you don't make as much as white men.

Answer 6

Affirmative action is supposed to correct injustices between for all minorities. For example, if there's an engineering firm (an industry typically dominated by men) that's an affirmative action employer, they would recruit for women of color (black, indian, hispanic,etc.) first because that's a double minority. Then men of color or white women, and white men last.
Is there something specific that makes you say white women have benefitted more and not been fair, or is that just a general observation?

Answer 7

Affirmative action deals with all people who are not being treated equally...not just minorities, but, among others, the handicapped and women, too. Why does everything have to come down to racial injustice?? There are other types of injustice, too.

Answer 8

Women in general have been the so called slaves of society for thousands of years. This has nothing to do with the colour or your skin but rather your femininity. Study the history of women if you want to see what real slavery is, and what is still going on all over the world today. It is time we as women became allies in order to change this world/

Answer 9

Once upon a time women in general were as discriminated against as any skin color. They had to fight to vote, and are still fighting for equal pay for the same work as the men do. Do a search for Susan B Anthony, and also the Equal Rights Amendment. It will be a good history lesson for you.

Answer 10

White politicians in the south wanted women (and no, not just white women) included in hopes that an all male senate would not approve the bill based on the fact that women were a protected class in the bill.

Gotta add that I'm glad all women were included in affirmative action. Women of all races have been discriminated against, and it's only fair that they be included in an attempt to correct social injustice.