for questions about claims based on discrimination.
Questions tagged [discrimination]
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Was it illegal to discriminate on the basis of intelligence in the United States?
Paul Graham wrote the following in March 2005:
One advantage startups have over established companies is that there
are no discrimination laws about starting businesses. For example, I
would be reluctant to start a startup with a woman who had…
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Do Americans in Russia typically get sentenced to nine years in prison for offenses that local Russians typically get only a one year sentence?
Trevor Reed says that is the case, but he only offers a sample of two Americans (himself and Griner). He says that Russians would "usually receive a year, two years maybe" for the same offenses while 9 years, he says, was unheard of "the entire time…
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Do (or did) post offices in Singapore have a policy of attending to men with long hair last?
I recently saw this photo on Facebook. Is the contained claim true, that post offices in Singapore will attend to men with long hair last?
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Was the NAACP slow in acting for the rights of Sherman Ware?
In What the NAACP can learn from George Zimmerman, George Zimmerman's brother Robert Zimmerman Jr. claimed that the organization was slow to act on the beating of homeless African-American Sherman Ware by Justin Collison, the son of a policeman:
My…
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Do women in all-women shops earn less then men in all-men shops?
Many women & men raise issues of equal pay for equal work, but a recent analysis of Uber Drivers showed that women earned less because of working less or driving slowly; Uber Payment system did not Discriminate between genders.
Similarly, those…
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Do women earn less than men for the same exact work?
Previous questions on the site such as this one and this one, as well as the answers and their sources address the gender pay gap on a broad scale, comparing the careers of all men to the careers of all women. The first one assumes a gender pay gap…
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Minorities and Prejudice.
I watched an episode of Real Time with Bill Maher Show and
made me wondering:
If you are majority (race, gender, caste or whatever) you always have to watch what you say about minorities otherwise you are called prejudice. But in many instances I…
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Are 91 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs in the United States white men?
Laura Mather wrote on Huff Post:
Let’s start with the numbers: women represent about 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs. Minorities represent approximately 4 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs. Therefore, only 9 percent of the biggest companies in the U.S.…
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