The Rooney Rule is a National Football League policy that requires league teams to interview ethnic-minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs. It could be considered an example of affirmative action, though before 2022 there was no hiring quota or preference given to minorities, only a quota for interviewing.[1][2][3] The first actual hiring quota was established before the 2022 season, mandating that at least one member of each team's offensive coaching staff must be either an ethnic minority or a woman.[4] The Rooney Rule was established in 2003, and variations of the rule are now in place in other industries.[5][6]
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