Implications for Asian Americans<\/strong>:\u00a0 80-20 has repeatedly brought this to the attention of President Bush\u2019s Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao.\u00a0 Senator Tom Carper, the U.S. Senator from Delaware, has also raised this issue to the Secretary of Labor.\u00a0 Unfortunately nothing positive has been done by the Secretary of Labor, except trying to say that 80-20\u2019s statistical analysis is not quite valid, in spite of the fact that the statistics shown in their reply to Senator Carper also supports the conclusion of the above chart.\u00a0 Furthermore, Ron Edwards, the statistics expert from the federal government\u2019s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), has told 80-20 on 4\/12\/06 that “Your calculations [to arrive at the chart’s conclusions] are consistent with mine.”<\/p>\nThe significantly lower probability of promotion to management level is even more puzzling considering that Asian American as a group has higher educational training.\u00a0 Furthermore, as pointed out by 80-20, of the graduates with a master degree in business (including MBA), the largest percentage among minority groups of such graduates belongs to the Asian American group.\u00a0 Of the graduates with a bachelor degree in business or a doctoral degree in business, the second largest percentage of such graduates belongs to the Asian American group, just slightly behind the African American group.<\/p>\n
It seems that the only explanation of the Secretary of Labor’s reluctance to take actions to correct a long-standing issue of non-equal employment opportunity that should be the responsibility of the Secretary of Labor as mandated under EO 11246 is that she doesn’t want to take any action that might not be consistent with the prevailing atmosphere and approach of her boss, President Bush.<\/p>\n
Another example of lack of equal employment opportunity for Asian Americans is the lack of appointment (by the President of the U.S.) to U.S. federal judgeships.\u00a0 There are 875 federal judges, but only six (or 0.7%) are Asian Americans (10.7% are African Americans and 6.5% are Hispanic Americans).\u00a0 Relative to the 4.5% of the population that are Asian Americans, there should be 39 Asian American federal judges.\u00a0 It is important to note that there is a more-than-adequate supply of qualified Asian American lawyers.\u00a0 In 2002, in law firms with 100 or more employees, the percentage who are Asian Americans were 5.3%, which is higher than 4.4% for African Americans and 2.9% for Hispanic Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the many Asian Americans who have worked in private industries, government, and academics, they don’t really need any sophisticated statistical analysis to tell them what they already know and experience in their work environment.\u00a0 But they do need such statistical analysis to try to convince others.\u00a0 Unfortunately, even such clear-cut statistical analysis often still cannot overcome the power of political influence.\u00a0 That is why 80-20 has been advocating a bloc-vote approach to achieve equal opportunity and justice for Asian Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is Executive Order 11246? Executive Order (EO) 11246 (see, e.g., http:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Executive_Order_11246) was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on 9\/24\/65 that required Equal Employment Opportunity. The Order states that \u201cIt is the policy of the Government of the United States to provide equal opportunity in Federal employment for all qualified persons, to prohibit discrimination […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}