So, what exactly is discrimination? And what can you do if it's happening to you? There are several different types of discrimination to be aware of. Let's take a look at these now. Direct discrimination is when you're treated unfairly because of a "protected characteristic" – like ethn...
Like all discrimination, gender discrimination is a human rights violation, though the distinction between “gender” and “sex” is a more recent development. Take the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an example. Article 2 reads: “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set...
Review article: What is new in the economics of racial discrimination?Michael Reich, Racial Inequality: A Political—Economic Analysis, Princeton; Princeton University Press, 1981, xii + 345 pp. $57.95. Bradley R. Schiller, The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination, third edition, Englewood ...
Aftersuspending the program for admitting refugeesinto the United States,Trumpis making an exception for one group: white South Africans, who he claims have beenvictims of racial discrimination. A group of 59 South Africans who belong to the white minority Afrikaner ethnic group ‒ classified by...
Paradigm shifts in industry often happen when new technology is introduced that radically alters the production process ormanufacturingof a good or service. These shifts are key drivers in many of the processes that a society undergoes, such as theAmerican Industrial Revolutionor the information revolu...
Transgender rights have become a major talking point as sports seek to balance inclusivity with ensuring there is no unfair advantage. LGBTQI advocacy groups say excluding trans athletes amounts to discrimination. Article content Article content World Aquatics voted last year to restrict participation ...
Microsoft has retired or limited facial recognition capabilities that can be used to try to infer emotional states and identity attributes which, if misused, can subject people to stereotyping, discrimination or unfair denial of services. The retired capabilities are emotion and gender. The limited ca...
This is a complicated question with a complicated answer. While some changes that we can make are tangible, like ensuring men and women have legal equality and creating laws to tackle discrimination, some are less easy to pinpoint. As we discuss in our Gender Inequality; what we know so ...
Microsoft has retired or limited facial recognition capabilities that can be used to try to infer emotional states and identity attributes which, if misused, can subject people to stereotyping, discrimination or unfair denial of services. The retired capabilities are emotion and gender. The limited ca...
The mental health problemsdon’t stemfrom their identity itself but often happen because of social discrimination and what’s known as minority stress,a growingnumber ofstudies show. Stigma,marginalization, discrimination, bullying, harassment and evenviolencecan lead to feelings of isolation and rejecti...