Affirmative Action strives towards the increase in number of women and minorities in education, workplace, and businesses to give them equal rights in society.
Affirmative Action is in positive affirmation of equal employment of minority and it should be adapted in all educational systems especially medical schools and colleges. Admissions to the medical schools and hiring of medical professionals should be solely on merit basis by assessing the test scores and grades of the students. Whether a person is white or black, male or female s/he should be provided a job or admission in medical school on the basis of his/her talents and ability. Assessing criteria should be to check whether a person is able to compete in medical school and perform a particular job.
In medical school of California University only 16% seats were reserved for minorities including women and ethnic groups in 1973. The very clear reason to this was racial segregation of minority. However, this was in clear violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Every normal person has right for education and employment in the society regardless of gender, color, and racial differences.
According to Justice Powell, “constitution cannot operate on ‘two-class’ theory, as Fourteenth Amendment’s claim to equally protect the law means to give equal protection to everyone regardless of gender and color. Constitution can’t make decisions on political basis to give judicial attention to one class and depriving the other group from it.” (Powell, 1976) And this is totally in harmony to save medical school program.
If admissions are not given on equal basis then how the constitution will give equal protection? Practical implementation of Affirmative Action would diminish traditional set back of minority groups who were not given privileges in the medical schools and profession earlier. But now there is a.......
