Essays on Discrimination

The oppression of the sexual minorities started many years ago, and it is still practiced in the current century. Many societies discourage same-sex attraction claiming the behavior is harmful not only to the individual but also to the larger society. Before the 1970s, very few researchers such as Dr. Harry...

Part AThe podcast highlights an experiment in racial discrimination that a teacher used to improve the awareness of her class on prejudice during the peak of the civil rights movement. The video titled “A Class Divided” starts by highlighting a reunion of the then third graders who took part in...

It also refers to a state of no indirect or direct discrimination based on, race, nationality, gender or sexual orientation. Direct discrimination refers to when one is treated less favorably than another due to a comparison on the basis of race, gender or any other criteria. Indirect discrimination occurs when...

The podcast presents a procedure that was once used by a teacher in Iowa to teach her third-grade class how it feels to be discriminated against. The teacher uses the color of the eyes to divide the class and make those with a particular color of their eyes to be...

Gender discrimination can be defined as the situation in which someone is subjected to prejudice, intimidations and of a less being due to the sexuality of the person. This has been mostly dominated by when being discriminated by the men. It has been evident in most communities and even it...

Gender Discrimination in the Workplace Gender discrimination concerning pay, promotion opportunities, and career development remain a concern in most workplaces. It is socially, and morally wrong to mistreat employees, unfavorably, or differently because of their gender. There are two options that the board members can select to solve the dilemma Oilee...

Does Affirmative Action Work? By Graham K. Brown evaluates the efficiency of affirmative action programs keeping the focus of the programs implemented in Malaysia, India and South Africa. The article was written based on the author’s interests in research of identity, political mobilization, and inequality. The piece joins the constant...

Racism and the Black Lives Matter Movement Racism has been on the rise in the past decades and talking about racism in this time and era of is not only unfortunate but absurd. With the level of technological development, and high education standards in the world, the population of the world...

As early as the 1600s, the discrimination against the Transgender people was already engraved in our history. With Queen Christina of Sweden, who was often considered bisexual, dressed in men’s clothing and even went to the extent of renaming herself “Count Dohna.” (LGBT Resource Center).  The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,...

Gender Inequality in the Workplace Over the years, women have been getting less preferential treatment despite the positions they hold in their workplaces. Gender inequality is very common in the workplaces, and this is a serious issue that should not be overlooked by employers. Many women are bullied, ridiculed, threatened, sexually...

Prejudice is the act of forming an opinion about someone without full knowledge of the person expressed through discrimination and stereotyping. Targets of prejudice have characteristics that make them different from the rest as explained by Saul (2008) in Prejudice and Discrimination 1. Such characteristics include religion, gender, social class,...

Racial discrimination is an act of prejudice directed to s specific racial group based on the idea that another race is more superior. Racial discrimination is based on the idea that people should have qualities that identify them to a certain race and it will be used to determine their...