Affirmative Action Effectiveness

Affirmative action is defined as a policy that was put in place trying to take into consideration the members of the minority groups in the society or the groups that are considered as being disadvantaged due to the fact that they experience discrimination in the society currently, or they have suffered that before. Among the groups that had been covered by the affirmative action were the women since for the longest time, women had been considered as the weaker and inferior gender and thus suffered high levels of discrimination especially in the workplace. The affirmative action was highly effective in helping to open up more and greater opportunities for women in the society as one of the minority groups in the society and offering them the