...Brandon School & Society 8 December 2014 Race And Gender Discrimination The issue of discrimination has been the cause of raging debates for a long time in the history of the United States. Such discrimination may be based on race, gender color, ethnicity, or any other basis that distinguishes people and tends to favor specific groups over others. During the history of America, the American people have observed discrimination on many fronts and especially so against black people and the minority. The concepts of race, gender, and class have had a tremendous effect on children’s experiences through the American education system. Different children and people have different life experiences as well as different backgrounds. As such, one cannot wish away these elements of race gender and class in an education system that has real people from real societies. As such, a society can only hope to find ways of reducing the distinctions and the discrimination associated with those elements in the schools. The discussion in this paper will analyze the modern forms of racial and sexual discrimination, which affects access and treatment of students in schools. It will propose an argument for ways of creating racial and gender equality in schools in the United States. Equality of education in American schools refers to the provision of similar opportunities, expectations, and support in education for people from both gender as well as for people from different backgrounds (DeMarrais...
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...Different Types Of Employment Discrimination | Employment discrimination simply means imbalanced and biased treatment meted out to some employees on the basis of prejudice. This has been an important and grave issue of concern for companies across the world. Such discrimination occurs when an employer singles out any one employee or a group on the basis of age, race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religion and other reasons. Workplace discrimination can take place in a number of forms that include illegal hiring and firing, on-the-job harassment, denial of a worker’s promotions or raises and unequal pay. For this reason, several laws have been created to protect the people from discrimination and retaliation from their employers. Read on to know the different types of discrimination in the workplace. Gender Discrimination Also known as sexual discrimination or sex-based discrimination, gender discrimination takes place when one gender is preferred over the other. In this case, one employee is treated in an unfair manner or inequitable manner by his employer, on the basis of the employee’s gender. Racial Discrimination Racial discrimination is the most common form of employment discrimination. Employees are treated harshly or differently based on their race or ethnicity. Though there are laws that prohibit employers to deny a job-seeker employment opportunity because of his/her racial group and characteristics, it is a common practice in most of the workplaces...
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...Equality and Discrimination Hundreds of millions of people suffer from discrimination in the world of work. This not only violates a basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences which perpetuate poverty and inequality while worsening social tensions. Lessening discrimination could help the world dramatically decrease poverty and promote decent work for all. Unions can play a crucial role in fighting discrimination nationally and internationally through political action and collective bargaining. But, their leaders and members are themselves subject to discrimination as workers are penalized for joining unions or participating in union activities. However, by better understanding discrimination in its many forms and devising strategies to combat it, unions could help eliminate discrimination and, at the same time, strengthen their organizations. What is discrimination? Discrimination in employment and occupation takes many forms, and occurs in all kinds of work settings. It entails treating people differently because of certain characteristics, such as race, colour or sex, which results in the impairment of equality of opportunity and treatment. In other words, discrimination results in, and reinforces, inequalities. With discrimination the freedom of human beings to develop their capabilities and to choose and pursue their professional and personal aspirations is restricted without regard for ability. Because of discrimination, skills and competencies...
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...|Term |Definition | |Discrimination |The act of denying individuals and groups equal rights and opportunities based on prejudices| | |of race, gender or creed. | |Institutional discrimination |The denial of employment, housing and education to individuals or groups based on race and | | |ethnicity. | |Political correctness |A term that expresses the need to minimize social and institutional discrimination based on | | |race, culture, sexual orientation and religion. | Part II Write a 150- to 250-word response to each of the following questions: • How is discrimination different from prejudice and stereotyping? Prejudice is an unjustified or negative opinion toward an individual based on their involvement in a social group and can be based on a certain race or gender. Stereotyping is a popular belief about certain groups or individuals based on race, gender or religion. The act of discriminating differs from prejudice and stereotyping because it is the act or behavior against specific individuals...
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...Though gender discrimination and sexism refers to beliefs and attitudes in relation to the gender of a person, such beliefs and attitudes are of a social nature and do not, normally, carry any legal consequences. Sex discrimination, on the other hand, may have legal consequences. Though what constitutes sex discrimination varies between countries, the essence is that it is an adverse action taken by one person against another person that would not have occurred had the person been of another sex. Discrimination of that nature in certain enumerated circumstances is illegal in many countries. Currently, discrimination based on sex is defined as adverse action against another person, which would not have occurred had the person been of another sex. This is considered a form of prejudice and is illegal in certain enumerated circumstances in most countries. Sexual discrimination can arise in different contexts. For instance an employee may be discriminated against by being asked discriminatory questions during a job interview, or because an employer did not hire, promote or wrongfully terminated an employee based on their gender, or employers pay unequally based on gender. In an educational setting there could be claims that a student was excluded from an educational institution, program, opportunity, loan, student group, or scholarship due to their gender. In the housing setting there could be claims that a person was refused negotiations on seeking a house, contracting/leasing...
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...FARHANA WILLIE PRINCES SITTI HAIDA DISCRIMINATION AT WORKPLACE IN MALAYSIA INTRODUCTION Discrimination against minorities at workplace in Malaysia Malaysia is a country with people raging from different racial and ethnic groups. That has what led Malaysia into one of a country that is unique compared to other countries around the world. However, the diversity of races in Malaysia can lead to discrimination. There are many issues about discrimination have been expressed, and most of these issues are very serious and should not be ignored. For our coursework, we select three news articles based on the issue of discrimination that occurred in Malaysia. The three selected articles were about the discrimination against gender, and race which is very common issues in Malaysia due to the multiracial community and the increasing population of women not just in Malaysia, but all over the world. Discrimination against race is a very significant issues occurred in Malaysia. Even more in the context of employment. Based on the Job seekers in Malaysia experience discrimination, by L.Suganya, The Jakarta Post, in the year 2013, there is an issue from a Facebook users claims that she could not get a temporary job as a sales person in a retail outlet because she wears a hijab (long headscarf) or tudung (short headscarf), created a debate with other users. This issue became viral in social media as it involving the racial issues. Based on this story, the study conducted by University...
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...Gender Discrimination Here at (insert restaurant name) a lively sports bar and grill, catering to a mostly male clientele believe that it is important for us to evaluate any potential legal issues that we could be faced with regarding gender. Including but not limited to, gender identity, staff requirements, sexual stereotyping, and unfair burdens placed upon a particular sex. Sex or gender discrimination has been defined as the different treatment of individuals during their employment solely based on whether that individual is male or female (1). Gender discrimination can be brought up as a legal issue for us if we favor female over male applicants in our hiring process in an attempt to appeal to our mostly male clientele. We need to ensure that we remain aware that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a federal law and will not protect our preference of hiring women over men as part of our bartender and wait staff. Title VII protects our employees and applicants from being discriminated upon based on their sex. The fact that we as the employer have a preference for hiring women over men in is not protected under the few exceptions that Tile VII makes for employers. The “bona fide occupational qualification” or BFOQ, for example, is one of the exceptions that do not apply to our situation. The BFOQ allows for sexual discrimination when the “essential” part of the particular job requires the applicant to be of a certain sex (1). The BFOQ will not protect us simply...
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...Disparity and Discrimination Kary L. Wilson CJA/344 Cultural Diversity in Criminal Justice December 5, 2011 Benjamin Harm Disparity and Discrimination This assignment will compare and contrast the terms disparity and discrimination. Sufficient background and examples of disparity and discrimination from the criminal justice system will be used to support persuasively the development of each term. First, the term disparity will be defined, developed, and supported with examples from the criminal justice system. Second, the term discrimination will be brought into focus, defined, and supported accordingly. Third, the similarities, and differences between the terms will be brought into discussion. The assignment will conclude by defining the applicability of the problem as it relates to these terms and will attempt to suggest a solution in curbing or even eliminating discrimination and disparity within the system. It is often said that the American Criminal Justice System directly discriminates against minorities based on race, gender, ethnicity, religion, and economic status. To clarify the credibility of such statement, one must be able to understand that deeply weaved within such claim stands the issue of disparity. Disparity and discrimination are two important social factors affecting the American socio-cultural aspects, especially those aspects related to the criminal justice system. Often, these similar terms are used interchangeably...
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...SUBJECT: Discrimination and Power CONDITION: Classroom environment STANDARD: 1. Define Discrimination. 2. Explain the Characteristic of Discrimination. 3. Explain Related Causes of Discrimination Behaviors. 4. Define Racism and Sexism. 5. Define Prejudice. 6. Explain power, and its Relationship to Discrimination. TYPE OF INSTRUCTION: Small Group Discussion TIME OF INSTRUCTION: 1.5 Hours NOTE: Near the end of this block is Practical Exercise #1. The purpose of this exercise is to allow soldiers the chance to think about and make decisions about what constitutes examples of prejudice, racism, sexism and discrimination by selecting various behaviors and categorizing them. You should have enough copies of the exercise for each student. If you wish - depending upon group size - you may want to break them into groups and allow the groups to work together. The Star Power Exercise is also recommended to reinforce this block of instruction. You should plan on allowing three hours for this exercise. If you do not possess the Star Power exercise, then you should find another exercise that will demonstrate the concept of power to your students. You may find a suitable video or film at your local TASC that would demonstrate the principles of power or the abuse of power that would serve well. However, Star Power is strongly recommended as the best means to reinforce this block of instruction to the group. LEAD-IN: Hopefully, blatant...
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...know discrimination has been around for a while now. So what really is the true meaning of discrimination? Discrimination is when an individual or even a group of people are treated differently due to race, national origin, age, gender, etc. Never once will the person doing the discriminating shed light on what that person’s qualifications and individual behavior are, nor have they ever cared. To illustrate the point, here are a few examples of employment discrimination. Up until the 1960s, almost all police departments, especially the southern ones, never would hire officers that were African American. If you were lucky enough to be hired as an African American officer, there were many restrictions that came with it. For example African American officers could not arrest Caucasians, and were not allowed to work in Caucasian neighborhoods. As an African American you were kept in minority neighborhoods. These are the types of work practices that show what discrimination is. Just because of an individual’s race you were treated much differently with many restrictions. Lastly around the same time frame, males were not allowed to be flight attendants. Only females were allowed to work this position. This is an example of gender type discrimination. Never were qualifications and experience reviewed about an individual first. In today’s day and age, police agencies and our criminal justice system as a whole still show many patterns of discrimination. Some of those discrimination patterns...
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...When a person is not given the same opportunity or treated unfairly based on their personal characteristics it is called discrimination. Discrimination in any form should never be taken lightly and if proven can have severe consequences. At some point, every individual has most likely suffered from being discriminated against. Some forms of discrimination are illegal, especially in the workplace. I have chosen a scenario that depicts more than one form of discrimination. Maria, is a person of Latino ancestry, a second generation native-born American citizen with a graduate degree. She has been with her current company for 10 years has filed a complaint for being unfairly eliminated for consideration for a promotion, because of her distinctive accent. Not only does Maria face discrimination, because of her strong cultural background evidenced by her accent but, because of her race, and gender as well. According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), they are “responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information. It is also illegal to discriminate against a person because the person complained about discrimination, filed a charge of discrimination, or participated in an employment discrimination investigation or lawsuit” (Overview, n.d.). According to Zimmermann...
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...Children express their outlook towards gender roles everywhere: at school, at home, and even at the store. Surveys provide evidence that children subconsciously group specific roles and jobs by assigning them to only one gender. Gender stereotyping in children not only exists but also teaches them only one way of thinking. The limited outlook that children have on gender roles is an issue in society as it prevents them from opening their minds and thinking in a way that is not pressured by society. However, gender discrimination is not the children’s fault, rather children are ways with subconsciously with this way of thinking which introduces a form of involuntary memory. Although individuals support that children do not discriminate between...
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...In the novel to kill a mocking bird there is many examples of discrimination. Discrimination is the injust treatment of a person based on their appearance, race, sexuality, class, or gender. There are three main types of discrimination found in this novel and these are racism, which is the main form of discrimination found in this novel; sexism; and classism. These forms of discrimination put together form the main plot of this book. Racism is a belief that all members of a particular race possess certain traits or abilities. There is many forms of racism in this novel, many of the bad things being towards African Americans. Calpurnia is the only African American person treated decently in the course of this novel, she is employed by white people and they appreciate her. The only character that says anything bad about her was Aunt...
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...Discrimination In the Workplace i Sex and Gender Discrimination in the Workplace Discrimination in the Workplace 1 Sex and Gender Discrimination in the Workplace In the early nineteen hundreds women did not have rights and experienced sex discrimination. They were not allowed to be educated, vote, or work outside the home except as maids or nannies. It has been an uphill battle to attain these basic human rights. Today women can go to school, vote and are active in the workforce more than they have ever been. Women are entering all arenas of the workforce to be construction workers, entrepreneurs, and even heading large companies. Even so, they are secondary to their male counterparts just because they are female. Women are facing sex discrimination. Sex and/or gender discrimination involves treating people unfairly strictly because the individual(s) are man or woman. Sexual discrimination should not be confused with sexual harassment, although it is a form of sexual discrimination. Sexual harassment refers to the unwanted sexual advances or innuendoes from an employer. Unfortunately, men and women face sex discrimination (workplacefairness.org). Some examples of sex discrimination include but are not limited to the following: Hiring • You apply for a job and have experience and qualifications, but they do not hire you because the clients are used...
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...Gender Discrimination: Abstract: Gender discrimination is a non-tradition security threat to Pakistan and it has implications for Pakistan security. Pakistani women are more than half of the total population, but women are treated inhumanly within their homes by their husbands or dominant males through different ways like Domestic Violence, Sawara, Vani, Karo Kari, Honour Killing, Acid Throwing, Forced Marriages etc. Gender discrimination is also deeply rooted in Pakistani society in education and employment sectors. The security of a state like Pakistan is connected with the security of whole population and a country cannot be considered secure until its whole population feel secure. For the progress and prosperity of a country there is needed to eliminate the discriminatory attitude of the society towards the women. There are multiple ways to improve gender balance in the country which will reduce gender discrimination. Key Words: Gender Discrimination, Education Sector, Employment Sector, Gender and Human Security. I. Introduction This study discusses gender discrimination as „non-traditional security‟ threat to the country. It argues that women are more than half of the population and the security of women is associated with state security. This is so because no country can be secure until its whole population feels secure. Pakistan needs to empower its women for the progress and prosperity of a country. Balance has been maintained by...
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