job discrimination
Unfair hiring practices
Job discrimination is the unfair treatment of workers or job applicants based on characteristics unrelated to their qualifications or performance, such as race, sex, age, religion, disability, or national origin.
It can occur in hiring, firing, promotions, pay, or working conditions.
She filed a complaint alleging job discrimination after being passed over for promotion despite having more experience than the candidate selected.
Many countries have laws prohibiting various forms of job discrimination, though proving it often remains difficult.
- racial biasPrejudice based on ethnicity
- gender inequalityUnequal treatment based on sex
- implicit biasAutomatic, unintentional stereotyping
- stereotypesOversimplified beliefs about groups
- old boys clubInformal male power network
ableism · Title VII · ageism · protected class · systemic inequality · religious intolerance · hostile work environment · legal disputes · economic disparities · workplace conflict · pay gap · job application · resume gap · background check · organizational culture · human resources · EEOC · disparate impact
- ageismageism, elder abuse, elder neglect, adultism, patronizing
- LGBTQ discriminationhomophobia, transphobia, biphobia, hate crimes, prejudice
- women's laborworking women, women workers, female workforce, women in STEM, women in leadership
- workplace equityequal opportunity, pay equity, fair employment, fair hiring, fair treatment
- women's rightssuffrage movement, women's suffrage, women's rights, gender equality, feminism
- labor lawlabor code, labor law, labor laws, labor standards, labour law
job discriminationmerit-based selection
Choosing by demonstrated ability
fair hiring · merit-based hiring · meritocracy · blind hiring · equal access
job discriminationworkplace equality
Fair treatment at work
equal treatment · workplace equity · fair treatment · workplace inclusion · nondiscrimination
job discriminationequal opportunity
Unbiased chance for all
equal employment opportunity · open access · diversity and inclusion · level playing field · fair employment practices
jobless, joblessness, jobber, discriminate, discrimination, discriminatory, discriminating, discriminated, indiscriminate