affirmative action

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affirmative action (enc)

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affirmative action - a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities; "affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decision"

social action - a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform)

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