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What best describes the reasoning behind the practice of affirmative action

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Provides opportunity to groups often overlooked due to discrimination

Affirmative action creates quotas for minorities and women to ensure they are not overlooked by mostly white, male employers because they discriminate. Affirmative action was meant to even the playing field after generations of gaps between white men and everyone else.
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