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Affirmative Action

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The emphasis in the movement towards the equality of the sexes has traditionally been on the removal of sex-based discrimination expressed in overtly discriminatory or indirectly discriminatory rules and practices. At one time it might have been thought that to outlaw discrimination, and attempt to educate persons to conduct their affairs on the basis of a simple non-discrimination principle, would be sufficient to achieve, within a reasonable time, the goal of genuinely equal life opportunities for persons, regardless of their sex.

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  1. There is a vast literature on affirmative action. Those wishing to read further might wish to consult R. Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously ( London: Duckworth, 1977 ), pp. 293–331

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  2. B. R. Gross (ed.), Reverse Discrimination ( Buffalo, New York: New York University Press, 1977 )

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  3. R. K. Fullinwider, The Reverse Discrimination Controversy ( Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1980 )

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  4. M. L. Duncan, The Future of Affirmative Action: A Jurisprudential/Legal Critique’, Harvard Civil Rights—Civil Liberties Law Journal, 17 (1982), pp. 503–63

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  8. S. Atkins and B. Hoggett, Women and the Law ( Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984 ), pp. 52–3.

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  9. See generally, Campbell, ‘Equality of Opportunity’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 75 (1975), pp. 51–68

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  10. P. Westen, ‘The Concept of Equal Opportunity’, Ethics, 95 (1985), pp. 837–50.

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  11. See G. Appleby and E. Ellis, ‘The Commission for Racial Equality and the Equal Opportunities Commission as Law Enforcement Agencies’, Public Law, (1984), pp. 236–77.

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  1. Tom Mullen
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  1. Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Law and Ethics in Medicine, University of Glasgow, UK

    Sheila McLean (Lecturer and Director) (Lecturer and Director)

  2. Department of European Law, University of Glasgow, UK

    Noreen Burrows (Lecturer) (Lecturer)

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© 1988 Sheila McLean and Noreen Burrows

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Mullen, T. (1988). Affirmative Action. In: McLean, S., Burrows, N. (eds) The Legal Relevance of Gender. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19353-0_12

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