The phrase "affirmative action measures" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about policies or practices aimed at improving opportunities for historically marginalized groups.
Example: "The university implemented affirmative action measures to ensure a diverse student body."
Alternatives: "equity initiatives" or "diversity programs".
Affirmative action measures give Dalits preferential access to universities and government jobs.
Other spheres of government here have also supported affirmative action measures.
"Female college graduates are much less likely to get jobs than men," said Lee Jung Woo, a presidential adviser on affirmative action measures.
RIO DE JANEIRO — While the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether American universities should take account of race when they admit new students, Brazil is implementing what are arguably the most radical affirmative action measures for universities in the West.
A vote took place on a political referendum for 26 changes in the Turkish constitution, which include such core issues as affirmative action measures for women, privacy and more justices on the Constitutional Court and in the judiciary.
Citing decades of regionally based discrimination in everything from education and hiring to government investment, Koreans from aggrieved regions of the country, especially the southwest, are pushing for affirmative action measures that some say should include admission quotas for elite institutions like this, the civil service and even the bar.
Mr. Obama, speaking on Sunday in Chicago at the Unity '08 Convention, a gathering of minority journalists, said he was disappointed in Mr. McCain's position on the affirmative action measure.
I guess hiring him was some sort of affirmative action measure.
Often called the "sleeping giant," the ethnic group was stirred from its slumber, actually jolted awake, by the tangible ramifications of the proposition (far more so than the anti-affirmative action measures also championed by then-Governor Pete Wilson).
A petition drive to place an anti-affirmative action measure on the statewide ballot was called off today by the man who started similar campaigns in California and Washington.
