Sentence examples for wide discrimination from inspiring English sources

We're supposed to be nurturing child-bearers and also successful professionals, but working mothers find themselves facing wide discrimination.

We saw hints last month in the laboratories of democracy, where statehouse politicians introduced bills that claimed to protect religious liberty by allowing wide discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

If it's not a policy, it's just that at some stores some managers discriminate, then they haven't really shown that it's class-wide discrimination".

If the plaintiffs succeed in showing class-wide discrimination, the trial will move to a damages phase.

In its first major affirmative-action ruling, the Bakke case of 1978, the Supreme Court rejected the notion that society-wide discrimination justified preferences for individuals.

"For the 2,800 women who were members of the class," Ms. Friedman said in an interview yesterday, "it's vindication to know that their failure to succeed was the result of class-wide discrimination".

Apprenticeships are one way out of that trap, but our report finds that in many cases apprenticeships mirror and perpetuate wider discrimination.

Company-wide discrimination looks pretty much the same no matter the employer's industry, region or public image.

The Court's decision will also effectively determine whether workers can continue to challenge company-wide discrimination by larger employers.

One obvious choice is to focus on companies that are practicing system-wide discrimination, so they can bring class-action suits.

Now the Supreme Court will decide the legal issue of whether the "class" of women is just too big to be allowed to proceed; the practical issue is whether Wal-Mart is too big to be held fully accountable for any company-wide discrimination it engaged in.