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President Obama is trying to name
more women and minorities to the federal judiciary bench in order to diversify
the judiciary. He has nominated many candidates including gay black male person,
lesbian person and South Asian; they are the first judges who have minor
characteristics. President is expected to nominate many more judges including
women and minorities. But, unfortunately, Republicans discourages him against
nominating those people as judges. According to the Federal Judicial Center,
the President currently has 35 nominees awaiting a Senate vote, and 50 vacancies
awaiting nominees. Among the 35 pending nominees, 17 are women, 15 are ethnic
minorities and five are openly gay, according to White House statistics.
The rate of women and minorities
who are working as national institution is lower than one of men. I’m not going
to say that the government should adopt rules of affirmative action, but
President Obama’s attempt would be one of the opportunities to change the status
quo. In the text book, the author talks about women right in history and politics.
If the government does nothing for supporting women, they cannot get
opportunity to participate actively in various fields as well as men do. In
this case, President Obama is trying to go beyond tokenism. It is not just for
this case, but also other workplace. Standards of achievement, job
requirements, and job expectations should be applied equally to all
individuals. Also, hiring women and minorities for positions that are terminal
in terms of advancement does not satisfy the equality in workplace. The same
opportunities for employment and career advancement must exist for all
individuals. Moreover, it leads to better outcome because people can think of solutions
from both men and women points of view. His attempt will contribute to fill the
gaps in the judiciary system and will lead to a fairer representation of
diverse experience and viewpoints on the federal bench.
In my opinion I think that it is great that President Obama wants to diversify the people who represent our country. The only thing that I do not like is that it seems like he is doing it out of pity to make America look more diverse in higher power. We should have a diverse group of people high in power, but it should be people that are qualified, and I think they should be selected no matter who they are if they are qualified. I am not saying that those he has selected are not qualified, but rather that this should have been happening a long time ago and just shows how messed up our government is. It is pathetic how diverse our population is, yet those representing us in high power are only a tiny percentage of who actually lives here.
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