Affirmative Action |
Equal Opportunity
|
| "Active
policy" |
"Passive
policy" |
| Requires employers to take steps to make certain they are achieving goals of
parity |
Prohibits intentional discrimination; requires that employers assess whether
their organizational practices are producing discriminatory effects |
| Recognizes that
intentions and achievements are not always perfectly matched and checks employer
intentions against outcomes, according to standard business practices and legal doctrine |
Sets no procedures for checking the difference between employer intention and
outcome |
| Requires employers to
monitor progress |
Sets no procedures for
monitoring progress |
| Establishes counting as
necessary to determining whether employers have been successful in ensuring that outcomes
are consistent with the goal of parity. |
Sets no procedures for assessing how well employers have met the goal of equal
employment opportunity. |
| Requires that employer
goals be based on counts of specific categories (i.e., race, gender, disability) |
Does not look at categories because there is no system for assessing outcomes |
