In Defense of Affirmative Action

Distinguished feminist and economist Barbara Bergmann acknowledges that affirmative action does indeed force employers to "play a quotas game". However, in a compelling study, Bergmann shows how 50 large corporations differ radically in how much integration they have achieved, and she presents abundant evidence that affirmative action, where systematically applied, has undone injustice and provided real economic benefit. Index.

Barbara Bergmann is an economist at American University and author of The Economic Emergence of Women, 1986.

Acknowledgments

ix

Thinking about Affirmative Action

1

(31)

Is Discrimination a Thing of the Past?

32

(30)

How Exclusion Occurs

62

(21)

Goals: Splitting the Pie

83

(15)

Thinking about Fairness

98

(33)

Does Affirmative Action Hurt Its Intended Beneficiaries?

131

(18)

Opinions Pro and Con

149

(17)

Alternatives to Affirmative Action

166

(15)

Notes

181

(18)

Index

199

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In Defense of Affirmative Action

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