positive discrimination BrE
affirmative action AmE *

Affirmative action has never sat well with most white Americans.

"Chicago is simply trying to bring affirmative action into the art world."

We do a good job with affirmative action at our company.

In the end, affirmative action at the university level isn't even the answer.

But we will still need affirmative action well into the next century.

But go back far enough, and affirmative action played a huge role in his life.

I wouldn't want to make it to the top thanks to affirmative action.

It would be better if we could all move up without affirmative action.

In such a system, there would be no need for affirmative action.

A great deal of work in affirmative action still remains to be done.