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Equal opportunity in suburbia
Author: Equal opportunity in suburbia
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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National Endowment for the Humanities and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Hiring Policies
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation SubcommitteePublisher:
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Equal Opportunity in Housing
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional RightsPublisher:
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Category : Discrimination in housing
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Equal Opportunity in Employment
Author: United States Civil Service Commission. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Annotated bibliography of materials received in the USA civil service commission library during 1971 and 1972 on equal opportunity in respect of employment opportunity.
Against Equality of Opportunity
Author: Matt CavanaghPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191584045
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Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Against Equality of Opportunity deals with the ways in which opportunities - education, jobs and other things which affect how people get on in life - are distributed. Take jobs: should the best person always get the job? Or should everyone be given an equal 'life chance'? Or can we somehow combine these two ideas, saying that the best person should always get the job, but that everyone should have an equal chance to become the best? These seem to be the standard views, but this book argues that they are all flawed. We need to understand meritocracy for what it is - a technical rather than a moral ideal; and we need to accept that equality just isn't something we should be striving for at all in this area. We also need to rethink our approach to the related issue of discrimination. We tend to assume discrimination is wrong because it violates either meritocracy or equality, when in fact it is wrong for quite different reasons. In all these areas, then, Cavanagh aims to loosen the grip of established ways of thinking, in order that other ideas might find room to breathe. This is particularly important in the case of meritocracy, which after the recent conversion of the centre-left now dominates the debate more than ever. This book will be of interest to students and teachers of political philosophy, but ultimately it is aimed at anyone who cares about the fundamental values that lie behind the way society is organized. Though the argument is rigorous, it does not require a professional philosophical training to follow it.
Bottlenecks
Author: Joseph FishkinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199812144
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Bottlenecks introduces a powerful new way of understanding equal opportunity. Rather than literal equalization, Joseph Fishkin argues that Americans ought to aim to broaden the range of opportunities open to people, at every stage in life, to pursue different paths. This approach has significant implications for public policy and antidiscrimination law.
Equality of Opportunity
Author: John E. RoemerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674042875
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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John Roemer points out that there are two views of equality of opportunity that are widely held today. The first, which he calls the nondiscrimination principle, states that in the competition for positions in society, individuals should be judged only on attributes relevant to the performance of the duties of the position in question. Attributes such as race or sex should not be taken into account. The second states that society should do what it can to level the playing field among persons who compete for positions, especially during their formative years, so that all those who have the relevant potential attributes can be considered. Common to both positions is that at some point the principle of equal opportunity holds individuals accountable for achievements of particular objectives, whether they be education, employment, health, or income. Roemer argues that there is consequently a "before" and an "after" in the notion of equality of opportunity: before the competition starts, opportunities must be equalized, by social intervention if need be; but after it begins, individuals are on their own. The different views of equal opportunity should be judged according to where they place the starting gate which separates "before" from "after." Roemer works out in a precise way how to determine the location of the starting gate in the different views.
Federal Installations and Equal Housing Opportunity
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
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Category : Discrimination in housing
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Equal Opportunity and Full Employment Act of 1976
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Equal OpportunitiesPublisher:
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Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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