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Although the Civil Rights act of 1964 required significant changes throughout American society, especially in the workplace and commerce, it was, politically speaking, only mildly controversial. |
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Discrimination, in itself, does not give rise to ethical problems unless the criteria for making it are unethical or unfair. |
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Legal access alone is usually sufficient to give a woman or person of color a really fair chance to succeed in a predominantly male or white workplace. |
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When an employer seeks to increase the applicant pool for its positions, no white male's rights are violated because no white male has been denied anything to which he had a legitimate ethical claim. |
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To conclude that the most qualified candidate has a legitimate ethical claim on a job is to treat jobs as the private property of business owners to be distributed as they see fit, not as social goods that should be distributed on grounds of fairness. |
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One response made to young white males who claim that they did not cause the harm done by past discrimination and, therefore, are being unfairly harmed by being denied equal access is that they are simply being denied something they did not deserve, i.e., an unfair competitive advantage. |
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One of the major arguments for preferential treatment in hiring is that such policies are a legitimate means for compensating people for harms they have suffered. To fail to compensate continues a practice of undeserved advantages for white males having to compete in an unfairly restricted job pool and undeserved disadvantages for victims of discrimination. |
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Even though the principle of equality, in its most basic sense, requires us to treat likes alike, ignoring the effects of undeserved and unfair disadvantages is not treating unlikes alike as long as it is done for the sake of some formal principle of equal or identical treatment. |
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The word "sex" can mean sex as gender or sex as sexuality. Even though the treatment a woman receives in a case of quid pro quo sexual harassment is unequal, it only involves sexuality and, as a result, cannot be a case of gender discrimination as well. |
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The "reasonable person" standard for judging the severity of workplace sexual harassment may mean what the average person considers reasonable, and that understanding may simply ingrain notions of reasonable behavior fashioned by the male offenders, and may fail to adequately address injustice. |
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2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education