The idea is to make up for historical discrimination by giving groups who have been affected enhanced opportunities for employment.

The department eventually decided that four "disadvantaged groups" - women, racial minorities, the disabled and aboriginals-would be targeted for measures reversing historical discrimination.

Right to affirmative action All federal employers or federal contractors are required to take affirmative action to help counteract the effects of historical discrimination.

In 2011, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution to apologize for the historical discrimination against Chinese immigrants.

ASUW provides funding for programming and advocates on behalf of issues affecting groups that have faced historical or social discrimination through its Commissions.

I have a hard time believing that men can make a straight-faced argument of historical systemic discrimination.

No national purpose is served by losing our sense of political and historical discrimination in an upwelling of patriotic fervor.

But he complained, "There is no mention of the historical racial discrimination which has prevented the assimilation of blacks, Hispanics and Asians."

That's where the historical discrimination has been.

The impetus towards affirmative action is to redress the disadvantages associated with overt historical discrimination.