Equal Employment Opportunity

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Equal Employment Opportunity Affirmative
Action

• Robert W. Ethridge, Ph.D.
• Vice President
• Equal Opportunity Programs

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What is Equal Employment Opportunity (EE0)?

• Provides every individual with an equal chance to
  become aware of, apply for, and compete for jobs.
• It applies to all employment practices including
• Recruitment
• Hiring
• Tenure
• Compensation
• Committee Assignments
• Layoffs, etc.

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What is Affirmative Action (AA)?

• Goes beyond the concept of EEO.
• AA policies and programs are tools that support
  efforts to recruit, employ, retain and promote
  qualified members of historically excluded groups
  (i.e. minorities and women).

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Comparing Contrasting
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Why is EEO/AA needed?

• Women earn approximately 77 cents for every
  dollar men earn
• African American men with professional degrees
  earn only 79 percent of what white males earn
• Audit studies, where white and minority job
  seekers were given the same resumes and sent to
  the same firms to apply for jobs, found that
  employers are less likely to interview/offer a
  job to the minority
• A 1995 study of university faculty hiring
  practices found that once a minority goal was
  met, departments stopped seeking minority
  applicants.

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What an Affirmative Action Program is Not

• It is not preferential treatment or quotas (the
  U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that quotas are
  illegal)
• It does not mean that unqualified persons should
  be hired or promoted over other people.

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Emorys Affirmative Action Program

• Implemented and monitored by the Office of Equal
  Opportunity Programs
• Designed to assess hiring, training and
  promotional opportunities for minorities and
  women at Emory
• Includes an Affirmative Action Plan that
• assists in evaluating progress
• identifies the need to execute different
  strategies to increase minority representation.

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What Are Some Affirmative Action Strategies?

• Aggressive recruiting to expand the pool of
  candidates for job openings
• Evaluating and updating selection tools and
  criteria to ensure their relevance to job
  performance
• Revising traditional measures of merit to more
  fully recognize talent and performance under
  varying conditions.

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Why are AA Programs Important?

• identify and attract outstanding individuals from
  historically underrepresented groups
• Increase the racial, ethnic and gender diversity
  of many educational and workplace settings
• Diversity is critical to the future strength of
  our society and economy
• Anecdotal evidence exists that racial, ethnic and
  gender diversity helps stimulate individual
  growth and intellectual development.

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• Office of Equal Opportunity Programs
• 201 Dowman Drive
• 110 Administration Building
• Atlanta, GA 30322
• 4047276016 Tel
• 4047272666 Fax
• www.emory.edu/EEO