... roles will create role models for future generations, in which Affirmative Action will hopefully not be necessary. One of the primary components of Affirmative Action, however, is that women, when they have equal qualifications etc. as men, gain the position, due to their sex, and while supporters view this as a success method creating equality, critics view this as a form of negative discrimination, masked in an attempt to gain equality, and morally, it shouldn't be applied. They argue that using affirmative action to assure some women a place in higher positions that they wouldn't have necessarily gained otherwise, undermines the achievements made by women who would have received their positions without the aid of the legislation, and that it would be presumed, by the rest of society, that their achievements were through use of the legislation, rather than personal achievement. Many supporters of the principles of Affirmative Action disagree with the ...

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