| 词汇 | affirmative-action |
| 释义 | affirmative action noun[ U ] uk /əˌfɜː.mə.tɪv ˈæk.ʃən/ us /əˌfɝː.mə.t̬ɪv ˈæk.ʃən/ If a government or an organization takes affirmative action, it gives preference to women, black people, or other groups that are often treated unfairly, when it is choosing people for a job.（政府或机构招聘雇员时优先雇用常受到歧视的女性、黑人或其他群体的成员的）积极补偿行动，平权措施 Human rights ageism ageist anti-discrimination anti-feminism anti-feminist desegregate desegregation discriminate discrimination distributive justice feminism feminist free speech freedom gay liberation self-emancipation sexism sexist sister under the skinidiom sisterhood affirmative action | American Dictionaryaffirmative action noun[ U ] us/əˈfɜr·mə·t̬ɪv ˈæk·ʃən/ politics & government efforts to make education and employment available to people who have traditionally been treated unfairly, for example because of their race or sex, by giving them some advantages over people who have traditionally been more powerful affirmative action | Business Englishaffirmative action noun[ U ] HR, LAW USukus → positive action Examples of affirmative actionaffirmative action However, in contexts with affirmativeaction programs, these traits are simultaneously socially equalizing or advantageous. In the unobtrusive version, the affirmativeaction statement is embedded in a list of other potentially objectionable items about taxes, pollution and so on. Our unobtrusive measure (described below) allows us to discern respondents' opposition to affirmativeaction without requiring them to reveal their opposition to the survey interviewer. As noted above, the party position on the status of the state and on affirmativeaction as a principle is decisive. So far, affirmativeaction has advanced the fastest in civil service employment. This is the kind of logic that undergirds affirmativeaction measures. Some accepted desegregation in principle but opposed the means chosen to implement it : federal intervention, busing, or affirmativeaction. Bilingual education, "diversity" programs, and affirmativeaction policies aim to do more than assure individual opportunity by remedying specific discriminatory acts. Right now, no political organisation has affirmativeaction internally. Each group had its own culture and language and had its own affirmativeaction policies tied to it. In the affirmativeaction empire, each nationality needed its own language in which to cultivate its distinctive socialist culture. Their main focus was girls' preferences, and they sought to determine whether the rise of feminism and affirmativeaction had produced any effect. She is willing to support affirmativeaction as one means to tackle the problem. On this basis, she made a lively defence of the politics of reparation and above all, of affirmativeaction. Note that in the treatment conditions each respondent received one (not both) of these affirmativeaction items. See all examples of affirmative action These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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