Class, Race and Gender

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Chapter 4

• Class, Race and Gender

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Discrimination

• 1) Discrimination is when an employer provides
  unequal opportunities to protected groups.
• For example, study of racial discrimination that
  shows white ex con are called back 17 of the
  time, but crime-free black applicants only 14.
  Yet, white people, when surveyed, dont believe
  that racial disc. Exists.
• 2) In this country, discrimination is illegal
  against.
• But protected against which group?

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Discrimination

• 3) Discrimination comes in three types
• Hiring
• Promotion
• Wages
• 4) Discrimination is difficult to prevent
• It is hard to prove It is legal to make it
  difficult
• The government does not provide enough resources
  to ensure non discrimination

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Discrimination and Inequality

• 5) Causes for Hiring Discrimination and
  Inequality
• (when employers refuse to hire certain groups for
  certain jobs)
• A) Statistical discrimination
• B) Gender/Race typing
• C) Job Sex/Race Segregation
• D) Networks
• E) Homosocial Reproduction

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Discrimination and Inequality

• 6) Causes for Pay and Promotion Discrimination
  and Inequality
• A) Tokenism
• B) HR
• C) Networking
• D) Glass Ceiling and Sticky Floor
• E) Sexual Harassment
• Quid pro quo
• Hostile Working Environment
• F) Racial Harassment
• G) Comparable Worth Discrimination

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Solutions to Discrimination and Inequality

• 1) Solutions to
• Statistical discrimination
• Gender/race typing
• Job sex/race segregation
• Homosocial reproduction
• Networking
• Affirmative Action
• What is AA Executive Order. Only effects
  businesses accepting money from the government.
• Doesnt require quotas
• Two biggest complaints about AA
• Reverse Discrimination This assumes that every
  job is filled by qualified white men tests
  measure qualification hiring is an objective
  process in which we know who is BEST.
• Preferential Treatment -- This assumes that
  preferential treatment benefiting white men does
  not exist. Is this true? In colleges, there
  is preferential treatment towards alumnis.