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EEOC Methodology/Proposed Research Study

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hiring practices. While this is a laudatory mandate that upholds the principles of equality and justice, the EEOC has been the object of much criticism due to its practices. The  following proposed research study suggests a methodology that examines the past and present of the EEOC by examining the content of news articles on the EEOC that have been published  in the popular press, that is, non-academic sources. The hypothesis for this study would be that such an examination would point toward whether or not the EEOC was fulfilling its  mandate. (The student researching this topic should understand that it is beyond the scope of this writer/tutors service to actually conduct a research study, with participants, etc.).  Certainly, Bovard (1994) does not indicate that this was the case. In 1994, James Bovard wrote a scathing evaluation of the EEOC that accused this organization of devoting itself  to "subverting federal law and increasing its own power" (p. 10). Bovard accused the EEOC of establishing a definition of discrimination that far exceeded the one authorized by Congress, painting  it as a power-hungry bureaucracy interested only in advancing itself through the unjust persecution of private business. To substantiate his claim that the EEOC was "renown for its contempt for  fair play" (p. 10)., Bovard (1994) cites several examples, such as the persecution of Consolidated Services of Chicago, a janitorial service owned and operated by Koreans. This company accomplished  the task of hiring largely due to word-of-mouth, which resulted in the firm having a largely Korean workforce. Although the firm did not make it a policy to turn down  blacks or Hispanics, the EEOC asserts that it was discriminatory towards these minorities. Bovard (1994) reports that "EEOC lawyers were apparently so anxious to impose racial quotas on the firm