Category archive: Affirmative Action
Walmart Still in NOW’s ‘Gender-Gap’ Crosshairs
By Chuck Roger • September 22nd, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Despite emerging victorious from a class action suit alleging sex discrimination, Walmart recently announced costly programs designed to “help empower women across its supply chain.” Over the next five years, the mega-company will “source” $20 billion from female-owned American companies and double purchases from global suppliers run by [...]
Big Sister in the Workplace
By Chuck Roger • September 6th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Today there are twice as many women in the American workforce as there were four decades ago, three times as many women getting college degrees. More working women than men now hold degrees. The growth rate of female-owned businesses stands at four times the growth rate of male-owned [...]
Protecting a Protected Class within the Most Protected Class—Government
By Chuck Roger • May 13th, 2011 12:01 am
Guest Post By Don Ross When our small business gets requests for donations from local charities, youth sports teams, and relief agencies, most requests are readily approved. Other requests are just as quickly denied if the group holds beliefs with which we strongly disagree. For example, if the request comes from a group that directly [...]
Can’t make this stuff up: the ‘Office of Minority and Women Inclusion’
By Chuck Roger • July 19th, 2010 8:50 pm
Thought that the federal agencies aimed at legislating “fairness” in Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged, were far-fetched? Well how about the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion? According to CNSNews.com, the financial regulation package passed by the House calls for the OMWI to perform “diversity” oversight at major federal financial regulatory agencies. The new office [...]
The American Association for the Advancement of Science advances nonsense
By Chuck Roger • January 13th, 2010 11:47 pm
The American Association for the Advancement of Science wants to: …allocate additional [science faculty] slots to U.S. racial and ethnic minorities [to protect universities from] likely lawsuits by groups seeking color-blind admissions policies. How long until we see the American Medical Association demand that medical schools “allocate additional slots to U.S. racial and ethnic minorities” [...]
The curious phenomenon of humans acting human
By Chuck Roger • January 13th, 2010 3:25 am
To most people, a 14-pound stack of statistics interspersed with dry, scientific text might initiate a regurgitation reflex. But not to hard science types. We love data. We seek it out, embrace it, analyze it. Data tell stories. Statistics spice up those stories. Take the well-worn liberal saw that women and men are the same. [...]
