8 Supreme Court of the United States: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc., No. 14–86, 1 June 2015

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-85 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Equal Employment Opportunity ◽  
Employment Opportunity ◽  
Equal Employment

AT&T and the Private-Sector Origins of Private-Sector Affirmative Action

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 542-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benton Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Equal Employment Opportunity ◽  
Federal Communications Commission ◽  
Employment Opportunity ◽  
Promotion Policies ◽  
Sector Employer

In January 1973, American Telephone & Telegraph, then the world's largest private-sector employer, entered into a Consent Decree with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In this decree, following a fourteen-month dispute before the Federal Communications Commission,at&tagreed to implement specific goals and timetables for hiring women in traditionally male jobs, men in traditionally female jobs, and minorities in jobs in which they had been traditionally underrepresented.at&t's adoption of affirmative action immediately preceded the routine application of affirmative action hiring and promotion policies in large, private-sector U.S. firms regardless of federal contractor status. Nonetheless, the importance ofat&t's action remains misunderstood by critics and supporters of affirmative action alike.

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