Affirmative Action Harming Men on the Job?
In 1993, administrators at Northern Arizona University decided to give some of their professors a raise. Under the school's plan, female and visible minority professors would receive pay-equity raises of up to US$3,000 each. The plan excluded all 192 white male professors.
Eleven years later, an Arizona judge awarded US$1.4-million in back pay and raises to 40 of those male professors who brought a discrimination suit against the university. MITCH MOXLEY in the Edmonton Journal