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affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

the answer would be:

b. race

what was the significance of the plessy vs ferguson ruling and jim crow laws

answer the impact. plessy v. ferguson allowed 'separate but equal, also known as segregation, to become law in the united states