Examples of reverse discrimination in the following topics:
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- These attempts in turn, however, have sometimes been called reverse discrimination (see below).
- Reverse discrimination is a term referring to discrimination against members of a dominant or majority group, including the city or state, or in favor of members of a minority or historically disadvantaged group.
- Reverse discrimination may also be used to highlight the discrimination inherent in affirmative action programs.
- Legislation in some nations, such as the UK, assert that identical treatment may sometimes act to preserve inequality rather than eliminate it, and therefore this so-called reverse discrimination is justified.
- Give an example of discrimination and reverse discrimination using examples of religious, gender, or racial prejudice
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- These measures are intended to prevent discrimination against employees or applicants for employment on the basis of "color, religion, sex, or national origin".
- The impetus towards affirmative action is to redress the disadvantages associated with overt historical discrimination.
- Some policies adopted as affirmative action, such as racial quotas or gender quotas for collegiate admission, have been criticized as a form of reverse discrimination, an implementation ruled unconstitutional by the U.S.
- Other opponents of affirmative action call it reverse discrimination, saying affirmative action requires the very discrimination it is seeking to eliminate.
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- Sexism is discrimination against people based on their perceived sex or gender.
- While the view that women are superior to men is also sexism, only in recent years has an awareness of this reverse sexism begun to develop in public discourse.
- Another example of gender discrimination is the disparity in wealth between men and women.
- Women in some organizations are suing their employers claiming gender discrimination.
- It is difficult to prove discrimination in such cases.
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- Institutionalized discrimination refers to discrimination embedded in the procedures, policies or objectives of large organizations.
- Institutionalized discrimination within the housing market also includes practices like redlining and mortgage discrimination.
- Institutionalized discrimination within the housing market also includes practices like redlining and mortgage discrimination.
- The achievement gap in education is another example of institutionalized discrimination.
- Examine the legal cases that had an impact on institutional discrimination
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- Countries with strong gender discrimination and social hierarchies limit women's access to basic education.
- Microcredit, a system of providing small loans to individuals and families in impoverished areas in an attempt to reverse the cycle of poverty, is almost always distributed to women.
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- Ageism is the discrimination of groups because of their age, and applies especially to the elderly.
- Ageism is the stereotyping and discrimination against individuals or groups because of their age.
- Ageism can be applied to discrimination against any age group, such as discrimination against teenagers, but this section will focus on ageist discrimination against seniors.
- Employment discrimination, or the presence of discrimination against a targeted group in the workplace, manifests in two different ways vis-à-vis elderly workers.
- The government has tried to combat age discrimination through laws such as the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 which forbids employers from discriminating against employees over the age of forty.
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- Racism is the belief that different traits of racial groups are inherent and justify discrimination.
- Racism is the belief that different inherent traits in racial groups justify discrimination.
- The United Nations uses a definition of racist discrimination laid out in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination adopted in 1965:
- Individual-level racism is prejudice, bias, or discrimination displayed in an interaction between two or more people.
- An example of structural racism can be seen in recent research on workplace discrimination.
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- Underlying this unequal treatment of women is sexism, which is discrimination based on sex -- in the context of a patriarchal society, discrimination against women in particular.
- Discrimination against women is evident in a number of different spheres of society, whether political, legal, economic, or familial.
- It should be noted that gender discrimination also ties in with race and class discrimination -- a concept known as "intersectionality," first named by feminist sociologist Kimberlé Crenshaw.
- Most studies have shown that people who fall into the bottom of the social hierarchy in terms of race or gender are more likely to receive lower wages, to be subjected to stereotypes and discriminated against, or be hired for exploitive domestic positions.
- In 1979, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) for legal implementation of the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
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- Despite legal protections, job discrimination against women still exists in the workplace.
- Beyond sexual harassment, the most obvious instance of inequality in the workplace is wage discrimination.
- List the forms of discrimination that women may face on the job
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- There are some who argue that minorities are owed special recognition and rights, while others feel that minorities are unjustified in demanding special rights, as this amounts to preferential discrimination and could hamper the ability of the minority to integrate itself into mainstream society (i.e. they may have difficulty finding work if they do not speak the predominant language for their geographic area).
- An example of a minority population discriminating against a majority population is seen in the racial apartheid that existed until just recently in South Africa.
- South Africans of European descent (the minority) discriminated against the majority African population (the majority).
- Additional examples of minorities discriminating against majorities include two instances of colonial rule:
- Racial discrimination is and has been official government policy in many countries.