Originally Posted by
flyingberk
That's not how Affirmative Action works!! All it means is if say 10% of a region is a certain race or gender, then one would expect to see roughly 10% of that region's workforce as being that race or gender. It doesn't mean "hire all of the women." It means "ATTEMPT to show a statistically accurate representation of your application pool in your hiring process in order to avoid discrimination, but still hire the most qualified applicant."
Not really though, because you are assuming everyone of those 10% also wants to work in this exact same industry as the other 90% and that they all have their applications in. That's just not the case. I was an Aerospace engineering major and females in that field were rare, and a minority female were rarer still. It doesn't mean the university was biased against females for aerospace engineering acceptance. For every 100 total students maybe 3 were minority females, even though the general population could be like 25% are minority females. In this case, there just weren't minority females applying to this field. So you certainly can't say you'd expect 25% of those spots to be minority female because the reality was there just weren't even that many applying to it. And yes, affirmative action is bull****.
