discrimination law
Anti-prejudice legal framework
Discrimination law is the body of legal rules prohibiting unfair treatment based on characteristics like race, sex, religion, disability, or age.
It covers employment, housing, education, and public accommodations.
In the U.S., major discrimination laws include the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act: She filed a complaint under federal discrimination law.
- raceCompetition of speed
- genderSocial identity category
- Civil Rights ActLaw prohibiting discrimination
- disabilityImpairment affecting life activities
- ageDuration of existence
punitive damages · sexual orientation · unconscious bias · disparate impact · Title VII · hostile work environment · pregnancy · Americans with Disabilities Act · reasonable accommodation · national origin · equal opportunity · ethnicity · stereotyping · harassment · wrongful termination · unequal treatment · marital status · victimization
- law and societysocial control, legal institutions, legal systems, social order, rule of law
- lawslaws, statute, ordinance, acts, statutes
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
- labor lawlabor code, labor law, labor laws, labor standards, labour law
- legal systemsconstitutional law, judiciary, court system, penal code, laws
- education lawTitle IX, FERPA, disability rights, student rights, admissions policy
discrimination lawcaste system
Hereditary class division
apartheid · institutional racism · systemic discrimination · coverture · social Darwinism
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