Answer:
C) give no consideration at all to a job applicant’s race or gender
Explanation:
Affirmative action is a policy to encourage equal opportunity
and to level the playing field for groups of people who have been and
are discriminated against. According to the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, affirmative action "is considered essential to
assuring that jobs are genuinely and equally accessible to qualified
persons, without regard to their sex, racial, or ethnic
characteristics."
