ARBUS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Affirmative Action, Glass Ceiling, Equal Opportunity
6 Apr 2017
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Discrimination: the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex; victims of racial discrimination. |discrimination against homosexuals: recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another: discrimination between right and worng. Benign discrimination: same as affirmative action programs. Invidious discrimination: treating a class of persons unequally in a manner that is malicious, hostile, or damaging, ex. You only associate with people in your ethnic/racial/religious/political group. Barriers to fairness: attitudes towards the poor, desire to keep resources to ourselves, structural barriers. The glass ceiling refers to an invisible barrier that prevents qualified people from rising above a certain level of rank or salary in business organizations . It is an institutionalized form of bias that prevents the promotion of qualified individuals to higher levels of management on the basis of characteristics such as sex, religion, or ethnicity .
