discrimination laws
Anti-bias legal protections
Discrimination laws are statutes prohibiting unfair treatment based on characteristics like race, sex, religion, disability, or age.
These laws govern employment, housing, education, and public accommodations: The company violated discrimination laws by refusing to hire qualified women.
In the U.S., major examples include the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- disparate impactDiscrimination through neutral practices
- Title IXFederal educational equity law
- equal payMatching compensation regardless of identity
- disabilityImpairment affecting life activities
- reasonable accommodationWorkplace change enabling disabled participation
undue hardship · age · Civil Rights Act · Obergefell v. Hodges · Loving v. Virginia · employment law · hostile work environment · Brown v. Board of Education · litigation · enforcement agencies · race · gender · voting rights · whistleblower protections · marital status · affirmative action · national origin · sexual orientation
- LGBTQ discriminationhomophobia, transphobia, biphobia, hate crimes, prejudice
- LGBTQ rightsgay rights, trans rights, lesbian rights, gay marriage, marriage equality
- workplace equityequal opportunity, pay equity, fair employment, fair hiring, fair treatment
- ethnic policiesaffirmative action, apartheid, multiculturalism, minority rights, quota system
- labor lawlabor code, labor law, labor laws, labor standards, labour law
- LGBTQ+ rightsgay rights, equal rights, lesbian rights, transgender rights, LGBTQ+ rights
discrimination lawsJim Crow laws
Post-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
apartheid laws · segregation laws · Nuremberg Laws · grandfather clauses · literacy tests
discrimination lawssocial norms
Shared behavioral expectations
unwritten rules · de facto segregation · custom · social conventions · gentleman's agreements
discrimination lawsapartheid
Racial separation policy
Jim Crow · sodomy laws · Indian Removal Act · Chinese Exclusion Act · Group Areas Act