What was reconstruction? a. producing materials needed to fix government buildings b. changing factories from producing war material to peacetime goods c. the process of bringing southern states back into the union d. the rebuilding of everything that was damaged in the war

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts