Essays on Discrimination

Discrimination: Forms and Inequality Often discrimination takes various forms, and it may be based on either of the following; race, skin color, origin, ethnicity, religion, age, and gender among other factors. Discrimination is considered as a form of inequality as it disadvantages an individual based on either of the above grounds....

Physical attractiveness and employment Physical attractiveness and beauty have become an asset and talent when it comes to being employed. Like any other jobs, careers like modeling use these assets because it's mostly required for success. Other careers that don't require beauty including being a doctor and engineering as expected requires...

Heterosexism, just like other sex orientation stereotyping refers to abject discrimination of heterosexists premised on the belief that portraying such a trait is defiance to the standard straight sexual orientation that the majority of the society ascribes to. They face intense social exclusion; prejudices as well as threats of homophobic...

Equality Maryland Equality Maryland is an organization dedicated to advocate for equality for all people despite of their race, sexual orientation, age, gender or any other issue that may be insignificant yet a source of discrimination against anybody. Transgender discrimination is an issue that has caught the attention of many people...

Discriminatory Treatment of Police towards Citizens Why is the manner in which the police handle people depending on their class and ethnicity termed to be discriminative? The intensity of force used by law enforcement agents completely contradicts their training and imperative to serve and protect. Both articles explore the issue of...

Racism is experienced when one race feels superior than another resulting in discrimination and prejudice. Over the years, racism has existed, and different people have felt the effects on different levels depending on whether one is the perpetrator or the victim. Racism in most cases is perpetrated by the dominant...

Sexism Sexism, as defined by Roets et al. (22), refers to different forms of gender-based discrimination. Even though much of the attention is given to women, other people including men, the transgender, as well as the bisexuals also get affected. Currently, understanding sexism has become a complex and contentious topic since...

Thesis Statement: Age Discrimination: rights of workers. Abrams, Dominic, Hannah J. Swift, and Lisbeth Drury. Old and unemployable? How age‐based stereotypes affect willingness to hire job candidates. Journal of Social Issues 72.1 (2016): 105-121. The authors of this article begin first by showing that individuals are either required or...

The rates of obesity have increased significantly in the recent past due to factors such as the sudden change of lifestyle and poor feeding habits. People rarely engage in physical exercises despite the poor diet. According to a recent report, people’s body mass index, which determines whether a person is...

I am compelled to express great concern regarding how we at GM handle issues related to discrimination at workplaces. I am concern with the fact that nowadays some employees are discriminated or segregated on the basis of their race, religion, places of origin, culture, values and beliefs. These employees are...

Economic development and its impact on older workers Economic development has led to the improvement of living standards across the United States and other developed countries. Improvement of institutions such as healthcare as evidenced by the success of Medicare and Medicaid has increased life longevity. By implication, this development has increased...

The Decision to Hire an Employee and Legal Aspects The decision to hire an employee people should partly depend on the legal aspects that determine if employees or applicants should have tattoos or any other body modifications. First, Elzweig and Peeples depicted that the ever-increasing trend of people with a tattoo...