Employment Discrimination

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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General forms
General
  • Ageism
  • Caste
  • Classism
  • Colorism
  • Genism
  • Heightism
  • Linguicism
  • Lookism
  • Mentalism
  • Racism
  • Rankism
  • Religionism
  • Sexism
  • Sexualism
  • Sizeism
  • Speciesism
  • Weightism
Specific forms
Social
  • AIDS stigma
  • Ableism
  • Adultism
  • Anti-albinism
  • Anti-communism
  • Anti-homelessness
  • Anti-intellectualism
  • Anti-left handedness
  • Anti-Masonry
  • Antisemitism
  • Audism
  • Binarism
  • Biphobia
  • Cronyism
  • Elitism (academic)
  • Ephebiphobia
  • Fatism
  • Genderism
  • Gerontophobia
  • Handicapism
  • Heteronormativity
  • Heterosexism
  • Homophobia
  • Leprosy stigma
  • Lesbophobia
  • Misandry
  • Misogyny
  • Nepotism
  • Pedophobia
  • Reverse discrimination
  • Sectarianism
  • Shadeism
  • Slut shaming
  • Surdophobia
  • Transphobia
  • Xenophobia
Manifestations
  • Blood libel
  • Compulsory sterilization
  • Disability hate crime
  • Economic
  • Eliminationism
  • Employment
  • Ethnic cleansing
  • Ethnic joke
  • Ethnocide
  • Forced conversion
  • Freak show
  • Gay bashing
  • Gendercide
  • Genocide (examples)
  • Group libel
  • Hate crime
  • Hate group
  • Hate speech
  • Homeless dumping
  • Housing
  • Indian rolling
  • LGBT hate crime
  • Lynching
  • Mortgage
  • Murder Music
  • Occupational segregation
  • Pogrom
  • Racist music
  • Race war
  • Religious persecution
  • Scapegoating
  • Slavery
  • Trans-bashing
  • Victimization
  • Wife selling
  • Witch-hunt
Policies
  • Segregation
    • age
    • racial
    • religious
    • sex
  • Age of candidacy
  • Blood quantum
  • Cleanliness of blood
  • Apartheid
  • Ethnocracy
  • Gender roles
  • Gerontocracy
  • Ghetto benches
  • Internment
  • Jewish quota
  • Jim Crow laws
  • MSM blood donor controversy
  • Numerus clausus (as religious or racial quota)
  • Nuremberg Laws
  • Racial quota
  • Redlining
  • Same-sex marriage (laws and issues prohibiting)
  • Sodomy law
  • Ugly law
Other forms
  • Black supremacy
  • Genetic
  • Pregnancy
  • Supremacism
  • White supremacy
Related topics
  • Anti-cultural sentiment
  • Bigotry
  • Diversity
  • Eugenics
  • Multiculturalism
  • Neurodiversity
  • Oppression
  • Police brutality
  • Political correctness
  • Prejudice
  • Religious intolerance
  • Religious persecution
  • Stereotypes
Countermeasures
Countermeasures
  • Affirmative action
  • Cultural assimilation
  • Multiculturalism
  • Racial integration
  • Social integration
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Read more about Employment Discrimination:  Definition, Neoclassical Explanations For Discrimination, Critique of Neoclassical Approach, Protected Categories, Legal Protection From Employment Discrimination

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