affirmative action
Noun
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A policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities (synset 106672430)
"affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decision"is a type of: social action - a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform)
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