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In American society, minority group members are underrepresented in academic settings—as undergraduates, as graduate students, and as faculty members. This underrepresentation has many pernicious effects. For example: (i) the subsequent earning power of minority group members is lower than that of majority group members, (ii) there is an underrepresentation of minority group members in important positions in society, (iii) there is an underrepresentation in high status occupations in general, and (iv) consequently, minority group children do not have as many high prestige models as do majority group children. Women are also underrepresented in academic settings.
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Dawes, R.M., Eagle, J. (1976). Multivariate Selection of Students in a Racist Society: A Systematically Unfair Approach. In: Zeleny, M. (eds) Multiple Criteria Decision Making Kyoto 1975. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 123. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45486-8_5
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