In the present day, affirmative action is active like never before and gains momentum at most of the workplaces all over the world. Undeniably, some of the most original debates and revolutions are happening now in Australia (Moses & Jenkins, 2014). Affirmative action also called positive discrimination in some cases, is used to confront the impact of unfairness and historical difficulties. But the jeopardy related to it is that you will always find sectional groups who will request prerogatives and distinct behaviour owing to apparent bias. Research shows that unattractive people, gay men, short folk, fat workers and ethnic groups are discriminated against in the workplace (Bray et al., 2014). Affirmative action is quite of an issue in Australia, and it should be understood that the solution cannot be found overnight as a set of actions should be applied, but the fact is that the so-called positive discrimination is not, in fact, as bad as it is portrayed by the media and other sources.
Nonetheless, the evidence shows that female lecturers’ teaching ability is underrated owing to their gender, as those who compose the letters for candidates for the university posts in numerous fields practice state the male candidates as way more skilled and experienced. Regardless of the fact that the present findings deny that historical sexism prohibited many commendable women from being employed, the present unspoken bias relating science to men is not connected to minor discipline course-taking. Moreover, the majority of these studies proposes areas that actually require a supplementary effort to guarantee the equivalence of opportunity for females (Ceci & Williams, 2015).
In Australia, womankind establishes about half of the students who moved up from film schools. And yet they do not happen to obtain the complete welfare of a civic subsidy system brought through Screen Australia. This is a remarkable waste of an important reserve and an accusation of the state funding administration which does not, and has not for a long time, assisted the complete national awareness. There has always been a problem of discrimination of temporary immigrants in Australia (Hugo, 2006). If the entire Australian economy is aimed at moving forward into the future and prosper, it cannot disregard the talents and leadership abilities of those people. It is of great importance to remember that the reputation of the country depends on how it treats its immigrants (Maslin, 2015).
The article is pretty convincing in terms of explaining why the discrimination still exists and what it is based on. The argument is still complex, especially if one pays attention to the positive and negative cases of discrimination that women in Australia confront in almost all of the spheres of their lives. The real issue behind the article and the affirmative action in Australia is the easiness with which the decisions are made when it comes to discriminating women or any other minority. Biased view of women and other minorities as not so skilled individuals compared to the general public is an echo of the past, but affirmative action is still embracing the strategy of holding the minorities back, and the decision should be made as soon as possible, but nothing can be promised, because no matter how hard you try not to be biased, you still swing toward the positive discrimination in most cases.
References
Hugo, G (2006). Temporary Migration and the Labour Market in Australia, Australian Geographer, 37 (2), pp. 211-231.
Bray, M. et al. (2014), Employment Relations: Theory and Practice (3rd ed.) McGraw-Hill, Sydney, Chapter 8.
Moses, M. S., & Jenkins, L. D. (2014). Affirmative Action Should Be Viewed in Global Context. Web.
Ceci, S. J., & Williams, W. M. (2015). Women Preferred for STEM Professorships – As Long as They’re Equal to or Better Than Male Candidates. Web.
Maslin, S. (2015). We’re Right to Make a Scene About Gender Equity in the Australian Screen Industry. Web.