Why are 9 out of 10 managerial jobs filled by white males?
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Well I guess I am one of the few Hispanics to have a managerial job it's taken alto of time to get where I am at right now. I think the more education u have u will get better jobs.
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It will help the company avoid lawsuits.\n\nIt will also make the company a friendlier place to work for those who are not  white men.  Happier employees make for a more productive workplace.
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Well, actually it works hand in hand. People misunderstand what affirmative action is. Some people actually think that you have got to hire minorities whether they are qualified or not. Here is the thing. With affirmative action it just insures that you consider people of all demographics for available positions and that you hire the most qualified person without using color as a hiring tool. Some people speak of a quota. The quota thing is not a huge issue, not really. As long as you can demonstrate that you gave all applicants and opportunity regardless of color, then you are okay. Yet,if you only hire white men under 30 and that is all that you have. If you then say they were the only ones that were qualified, then you are looking for a problem. Because the question comes into play, well you could not find not one woman or minority that was qualified for any of the positions listed. I like affirmative action because it gives me the opportunity to interview and hire the most qualified individuals. If anyone says that companies cannot hire qualified individuals because of some quota, then they are misinformed.
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As a history teacher I get asked this question all the time and the answer is simplistically obvious--when more women start voting.  The reason why every single president has been a white male is because more white males vote than any other demographic group (and even that number is embarassingly small.)  In areas where Hispanics vote in large numbers we see Hispanic mayors, councilmen, and senators.  In states with a higher than average number of active female voters (such as California) we see two female senators.  So when questions are posed like, "When will we have the first black President?"--when blacks start getting out and voting in national elections more often.  "When we will have our first Hispanic president?"--When Hispanics start voting in national elections more regularly.  And conversely, the same is true for women.  There is no reason why we shouldn't have a female president.  But unless voting demographics change drastically over the next forty years, we will probably not see a female in the White House any sooner than 2050.  (Now watch Hillary Clinton will win in 2008 and I've have to eat my words.)\n\nAn interesting side note to this.  Ethnic minority leaders often try to stir the cauldrons of supposed racism by claiming that America is racist since we always vote for Whites as president.  This slant takes the blame off of the minorities for not doing their job and places it on the imagined "racist populace."  In reality, the blame is to be placed directly on the shoulders of those who do not vote.  It is interesting how the imagined powers of a racist America only apply when something evil happens to minorities.  If something GOOD happens it is because the minority individual EARNED it.  But if something NEGATIVE happens it is because of the racist individuals around them who caused it.  Such is the case with imagined "racist elections" in America.
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When it is hard to find jobs, then management can pretty much call the shots. When it is hard to find workers, management has to offer more to attract employees.
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Because white guys like to be sexually attracted to their girlfriends
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Are there quotas here too? If there are not that amny African Americans participating in this I can assure you that white men are not to blame for it.
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I can understand that the laws may sound this way when reading them.  However, the result I notice in the workplace on a daily basis does not reflect this at all.  I see more white males and females in the workplace than anything else.  Minorities are minorities for a reason...there are less of them.  So...you see more of the majority in the workforce.
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Affirmative action policies were put into place to assist women and minorities in getting their foot in the workforce and/or colleges around the United States.  It basically shut down the "good ol' boy network" and created a more diverse workforce.  No-one can deny that this country at one time limited women and minorities from getting ahead.  In the work force, if you were a hiring manager you might be asked to meet goals (hire 1 qualified african american applicant along with the 20 white males already working in your department; or as a college admission officer accept 5 qualified females along with the 100 males you gave the thumbs up to)  Of course no one in their right mind wants affirmative action to be a necessary thing (that's simply a no-brainer)... but it was and it still is needed.  However, there is a new generation coming up the line who never experienced the before world and think that affirmative action is a form of discrimination and want it put to rest.  More power to them.  I think we're still another fifty years away from that dream though... only time will tell.
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White guys have date more asians than you might think.\nSteve Westly is running for governer of US married to an asian ... www.SteveWestly.org
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It is the "Gender-based hierarchic distribution of the society's economic and social resources" - This means that one gender is given more privilege, such as men vs. women in the job market.  Statistically, men make more money than women in the business world - they are receiving more economic resources (money) because of a gender hierarchy (men have 'higher' position than women in job market)
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i am a white female. i think their are alot of handsome black men out their.
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Well that has to do with a combination of history, human nature and pure and simple discrimination.\n\nLet's examine those one at a time:\n1. History - the USA was created by white men therefore white men gained power and control from the beginning. It is always difficult for another race to gain power when one race has complete control. Btw, this also applies to gender.\n2. Human nature - when any one race gets into power, it is human nature to want to keep power within that one race.\n3. Discrimination - there have actually been a few studies on this that were used to justify Affirmative Action. It is not that white males intentionally discriminate. The studies illustrated that when a certain type of person, say a white male, is conducting a job interview, that ppl tend to like ppl the most like themselves. I'm saying that a white male that say has a wife and kids is more likely to hire a white male of the same situation not because he intentionally discriminates but that is human nature also.\n\nBtw #3 applies to all races and gender.
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like it or not, US still hold on the old value that a leader should be male. And of course htey still want the majority (white) lead the country. From my deepest thought whit male are more ambitious than those who aren`t
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Because traditionally it is a career that has been chosen by women and guy men. Straight men don't want to be thought of as weak because of these stereotypes. Maybe things will change with the current shortages and increased salaries.
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yes, i prefer white guys.. white men are more attractive than asians, hands down
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Yeah, it was considered as such by white men themselves. Then it occurred to other people that they didn't need to take that anymore.\n\nPlus I don't think white men have shirked off the 'responsibility' - Kipling would have well approved of Bush's plans to 'take democracy' to the world.