Chapter 09 Web Exercises

Web Exercise One:

Compare and contrast these websites with the chapter’s main points.

• “Do Native Americans Face Discrimination in the Labor Market?” by Algernon Austin, Huffington Post Business Section, December 5, 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/algernon-austin/do-native-americans-face-_b_4339955.html
• “Being in the Minority Can Cost You and Your Company,” by Shankar Vedantam, NPR, July 24, 2013. http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/07/24/204898755/wage-gap-research

Web Exercise Two:

Find affirmative action policies online. What are some policies that companies use that could proactively address discrimination and equal opportunity? When are companies put under a court order to use affirmative action policies?

“Big Business Asks Supreme Court to Save Affirmative Action” by Roger Parloff, Fortune December 9, 2015.

http://fortune.com/2015/12/09/supreme-court-affirmative-action/