positive discrimination

social policies encouraging favourable treatment of socially disadvantaged ‘minority’ groups, especially in employment, education and housing. These policies aim to reverse historical trends of DISCRIMINATION and to create EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY. The term is roughly synonymous with affirmative action and reverse discrimination.

In the US, where affirmative action programmes have been in operation since the 1964 Civil Rights Act, these policies have created considerable controversy and litigation. In defending the concept of positive discrimination, President Lyndon Johnson said, ‘You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, “you are free to compete with all the others", and still justly believe that you have been completely fair’.

The arguments of those opposed to positive discrimination can be represented by the views of Glazer (1975), who argues that affirmative action ‘has meant that we abandon the first principle of a liberal society, that the individual's interests and good and welfare are the test of a good society, for now we attach benefits and penalties to individuals simply on the basis of their race, color, and national origins.’

Despite calls for programmes of positive discrimination in the UK, it remains illegal under existing Sex Discrimination and Race Relations Acts.

The treating of one person more favourably than another based on that individual’s sex, race, age, marital status, sexual orientation or belonging to any other group that is often treated unfairly or under-represented in the workforce. While positive discrimination takes an individual’s characteristic into account to benefit the individual, such discrimination is unlawful.
Exceptions to positive discrimination
Positive disability discrimination is generally permissible and, in some circumstances even necessary, as in the allocation of seating or parking for disabled persons. Another exception is where positive discrimination can be justified as a “genuine occupational requirement” or “genuine occupational qualification”.

单词	positive discrimination
释义	positive discrimination positive discrimination or positive action n (Sociology) the provision of special opportunities in employment, training, etc for a disadvantaged group, such as women, ethnic minorities, etc. US equivalent: affirmative action Translations positive discrimination positive discrimination social policies encouraging favourable treatment of socially disadvantaged ‘minority’ groups, especially in employment, education and housing. These policies aim to reverse historical trends of DISCRIMINATION and to create EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY. The term is roughly synonymous with affirmative action and reverse discrimination. In the US, where affirmative action programmes have been in operation since the 1964 Civil Rights Act, these policies have created considerable controversy and litigation. In defending the concept of positive discrimination, President Lyndon Johnson said, ‘You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, “you are free to compete with all the others", and still justly believe that you have been completely fair’. The arguments of those opposed to positive discrimination can be represented by the views of Glazer (1975), who argues that affirmative action ‘has meant that we abandon the first principle of a liberal society, that the individual's interests and good and welfare are the test of a good society, for now we attach benefits and penalties to individuals simply on the basis of their race, color, and national origins.’ Despite calls for programmes of positive discrimination in the UK, it remains illegal under existing Sex Discrimination and Race Relations Acts. positive discrimination positive discrimination The treating of one person more favourably than another based on that individual’s sex, race, age, marital status, sexual orientation or belonging to any other group that is often treated unfairly or under-represented in the workforce. While positive discrimination takes an individual’s characteristic into account to benefit the individual, such discrimination is unlawful. Exceptions to positive discrimination Positive disability discrimination is generally permissible and, in some circumstances even necessary, as in the allocation of seating or parking for disabled persons. Another exception is where positive discrimination can be justified as a “genuine occupational requirement” or “genuine occupational qualification”. FinancialSeeAffirmative ActionThesaurusSeeaffirmative action
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