What would be some good affirmative action policies for men and boys that benefit society in general?

Pecanpig · 2013-07-12T19:08:42+00:00

None.

No I mean it, none, just removing affirmative action entirely would benefit men and boys far more then any more discrimination biased in their favor.

Erebus77 · 2013-07-12T20:09:55+00:00

Well, when you say that you would like to benefit society through affirmative action policies for men, do you mean that in the same way that society has "benefited" from affirmative action for women?

It has been deemed that society benefits through having a representational workforce in every occupation. For example, if 60% of an urban area is black, then 60% of the schoolteachers should be black. And if 50% of an urban area is female, then 50% of the doctors, lawmakers, and CEOs should be female. Quotas, scholarships, university admission guidelines, and other rules and laws are put in place to assist this fabricated equilibrium along.

Affirmative action would work for men the same way. Schoolteachers? 50% male. Nurses? 50% male. Food service, social workers, retail, office administrators, accounts receivable, HR departments, and everything else that is dominated by women would be required to create incentives to hire men. This could be through preferential hiring practices, adjusting the work environment to be more friendly towards men, workplace programs that provide resources to men and only men to help them advance their careers, and even positions that specify "men only".

The ideal utopia would be where any interaction with someone in a business setting will statistically reflect the mean ethnicity, age, orientation, and sex of the overall region. Then everyone will reach a statistically equal level of happiness with everyone else! What a statistically wonderful world to live in!

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Aaod · 2013-07-12T22:22:09+00:00

Nothing as direct as affirmative action most of us here disagree with it as a concept. We do wish for things such as the schools to stop favoring girls for example and less affirmative action in general would benefit us as men. The basic problem is you are asking how to change society which does need changing but affirmative action is not the answer.

4man · 2013-07-13T13:48:49+00:00

The answer to the damage affirmative action has created is not more affirmative action.

fia_bui · 2013-07-13T17:36:45+00:00

Affirmitive action only has the possibility to do good when there is a pool of willing candidates who are being turned down due to prejudiced selectors.

I can't think of any gender rights issues where this exists. Race issues maybe, in some areas, but not gender.

Title	What would be some good affirmative action policies for men and boys that benefit society in general?
Author	Perpetual_dissident
Upvotes	0
Comments	24
Date	July 12, 2013 6:57 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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