Employment discrimination (or workplace discrimination or labor market discrimination) is discrimination in hiring, promotion, job assignment, termination, and compensation. It includes various types of harassment.
Many jurisdictions prohibit some types of employment discrimination, often by forbidding discrimination based on certain traits ("protected categories"), such as gender, race, ethnicity.
Earnings differentials or occupational differentiation is not in and of itself evidence of employment discrimination. Discrimination can be intended and involves disparate treatment of a group or unintended, yet create disparate impact for a group.
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