Sentence examples for category of discrimination from inspiring English sources

Excluding someone on the basis of religion is barred under federal law because, like race and sex, this category of discrimination has proven so persistent and deleterious.

The report found that there was an increasing awareness of the need for social mobility, but that social class was a "relatively hidden category" of discrimination compared to other forms of diversity.

Are asexual people facing the same category of discrimination.

Age suits are now the fastest-growing category of discrimination complaints filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

But whether this "disparate impact" theory can be used for another important category of job discrimination, discrimination based on age, is an open question.

Additional complications stem from the fact that different categories of discrimination might intersect in ways that produce distinctive forms of unjust disadvantage.

In promoting the matrimonial ideal above all others, the marriage-equality movement produces new categories of discrimination, sanctifying "good" gays and lesbians and legitimizing some relationships at the expense of others.

The exception is the Exxon Mobil Corporation, which was created in 1999 after Exxon acquired Mobil, and then revoked a Mobil policy that provided medical benefits to partners of gay employees, as well as a policy that included sexual orientation as a category of prohibited discrimination.

"They promptly denied our application, and informed us that the word has falls into the category of human rights discrimination".

Indeed, neural signatures of category discrimination are present over several seconds [ 44], and the responses of auditory cortical neurons can remain informative about the stimulus for up to 500 ms after sound offset [ 44, 45].

What are the categories on which acts of discrimination can be based, aside from such paradigmatic classifications as race, religion, and sex?