Affirmative Action Unnecessary?

[DanaC]

7 people is too small a sample, I would agree. The fact that they haven't just hired all white, but also all Christian, suggests to me that they are simply hiring people they personally relate most closely to. This is part of the problem really: it doesn't just require out and out racism to perpetuate racial inequality. Ending racial inequality is not something that can be achieved by the less advantaged race alone:it does require a real effort on the part of the most powerful group in the country to hire against natural prejudices (i.e., the human instinct to relate most closely to those who are most like ourselves). This same instinct keeps the balance between male and females unequal. In the UK the diffierence in wages between men and women is approx. 17.5%. Women are under represented in the higher paying jobs and over represented in the lower paying jobs. Women are also under represnted in parliament, as are ethnic minorities.