User:RyanDing26/Affirmative action

Minor Edit
A variation of affirmative action more common in Europe is known as positive action, wherein equal opportunity is promoted by encouraging underrepresented groups into a field. This is often described as being "color blind", but some American sociologists have argued that this is insufficient."

This edit was a rewording of another user's contribution toward the page in which I moved to the introductory section of the Wikipedia article. Given that this article was very US-centric, I wanted to promote a more diverse array of viewpoints rather than have everything centered around the US' policies surrounding it, when affirmative action is something that is widespread around the world in different variations.

Copy Edit
Affirmative action is intended to alleviate under-representation and to promote the opportunities of defined minority groups within a society to give them equal access to that of the majority population. The philosophical basis of the policy has various rationales, including but not limited to compensation for past discrimination, correction of current discrimination, and the diversification of society. '''It is often implemented in governmental and educational settings to ensure that designated groups within a society can participate in all promotional, educational, and training opportunities. '''

It is often instituted for government and educational settings to ensure that certain designated groups within a society are able to participate in all provided opportunities including promotional, educational, and training opportunities.

I made this copy edit during my second run-through of the article as I felt that the strikethrough statement did not have such a substantial effect to be placed in its own individual paragraph. Thus, I integrated it into the paragraph above such that the paragraph structure maintained a level of equality!

Third Edit
A major topic of discussion within affirmative action is its impact on the efficiency of a workforce. Advocates both for and against affirmative action argue of its increase and decrease in efficiency of a company's workforce. Those who argue on behalf of its increase in efficiency say that positions which tend to be filled by less-qualified white males could instead be filled by a more-qualified, diverse array of candidates instead. On the opposing end, individuals who believe in its decrease in efficiency think that quotas regarding the policy will lead to less-qualified candidates from minority groups to fill jobs in which they are not capable of performing, thus leading to a decrease in efficiency

I added this article, with an appropriate reference to a 50-page research paper that I referred it from, in order to bring to light one of the major debates surrounding affirmative action that did not seem to be touched upon very much in the article: affirmative action's impact on efficiency.

New Note: Someone had just automatically removed my paragraph of text via a bot feature because the source I provided was seemingly unreliable. I question the validity of this edit as I had comprehensively read through the 50-page paper, which was backed with nearly 8 pages of citations and written by 2 researchers who have had decades of research experience and multiple publications on the topic. The paper was also cited by 207 other papers, which leads me to question how valid this removal was as well, as it would seemingly undermine all those other 207 papers directly as well.