For almost every job, the fact is that there are many qualified women and minorities. A dedicated effort to diversify a work force employs a variety of strategies designed both to make these candidates aware of positions and to diversify the pools of qualified applicants. Affirmative action is just reverse discrimination against white males. Traditionally, discrimination in America excluded minorities and women from many opportunities. Affirmative action does not bar white males from any opportunity.
Affirmative action seeks only to remedy the effects of discrimination.
Indeed, even where affirmative action is most actively pursued, white males are still highly successful in securing jobs. Affirmative action goals are the same as quotas. However, goals and quotas are quite different. Quotas define results in terms of specific numbers and are externally imposed upon an institution by the court. Goals are internally generated and used as targets to measure success.