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What is affirmative action and why was it ever created? Born of the civil rights movement, affirmative action calls to allow all minorities and women to be given special consideration in employment, education, and contracting decisions. Institutions with affirmative action policies generally set goals and timetables for increased diversity and use enrollment as ways of achieving those goals. Today, affirmative action can call for an admissions officer faced with two similarly qualified applicants to choose the minority over the white, or for a manager to hire a similarly qualified woman for a job instead of a man. Affirmative action decisions are not supposed to be based on quotas, nor are they supposed to give any preference to unqualified applicants. Also, affirmative action is not supposed to harm anyone through "reverse discrimination.