There was not a specific formalised psychometrically validated measure of experienced stigma available focusing on the scope and content of discrimination before the Discrimination and Stigma Scale made available after our study was carried out.
IBM is disappointed by passage of #HB2 in NC since it reduces scope of anti-discrimination protections in state https://t.co/3UT2vMJbB9.
Speaking at a dinner hosted by the Empire State Pride Agenda gay rights group on Thursday, Andrew Cuomo announced he would bypass the legislature, and use his executive authority to expand the scope of anti-discrimination protection unilaterally. .
Questions about the scope and effects of discrimination are largely but not entirely empirical in character.
In Smith v. City of Jackson, the court broadened the scope of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act by ruling 5 3 that proof of intentional discrimination was not necessary to sustain a suit based upon age discrimination.
Subjects of this study were, on average, barely affected by asthma symptoms and inter-individual variability was low with limited scope for discrimination between patients.
This is just the most recent of several Roberts court decisions that have narrowed the scope of federal employment discrimination protections.
According to reports, the government has delayed plans to finalise details of a same-sex marriage plebiscite before a possible 2 July double-dissolution election, meaning voters at the federal election may not know the scope of exemptions to discrimination legislation or details of public funding.
But that doesn't there are any grounds for complacency, as has been illustrated this week by the European commission backtracking disgracefully on a pledge - contained in its 2008 work programme - to extend the scope of EU anti-discrimination law.
But these steps are inadequate compared to the scope of public and private discrimination facing Muslim-Americans.
