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I confess that I have not learned enough about the community of violent women-haters, outside the context of domestic violence and rape. This article about the recent Toronto terrorist attack contends the attacker's focus had been on hating women who were denying him...
Brennan Walker, 14, got lost on his way to his high school. He knocked on a stranger's door for help. The homeowner picked up his shotgun. Thank goodness he missed. This should sound familiar. Something similar happened in Dearborn a few years ago. As long as metro...
Age discrimination in the workplace is common. Most people have a sense of this, but the tactics used by employers are rarely direct or systematic. One exception might be IBM, which was more systematic than most with its "resource actions" designed to terminate older,...
Today is National Equal Pay Day, a symbolic day for advocates in the U.S. to show support for women in the workforce and draw attention to the gender pay gap. On average women are paid about 80% of what men are paid. If you are a woman of color the gap is even...
A federal law says the Border Patrol can conduct warrantless searches and trespass on private property within 100 miles of the Border. Think about that. Why should people who look dark or Latino have all the fun of being treated like criminals or the enemy in their...
Sexual harassment in the workplace has been the topic of the last year. Another troublesome niche in workplace gender inequality still gets less attention: it is subtle to overt pregnancy discrimination. As a short-term disability, the months of pregnancy require...
It is no secret that sexism in the workplace is still a problem. While there are obvious forms of misogyny and sex discrimination at work, sometimes it is not so apparent. According to a report by Fast Company, biases toward women in the workplace are often implicit...
If you work for an employer with more than 15 employees, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination related to your birthplace, culture, linguistic characteristics or accent. Smaller employers with between 4 and 14 employees cannot discriminate on...
This article, Facebook Job Ads Raise Concerns About Age Discrimination, raises an interesting question of uncertain legality. To be precise, court decisions are not clear as to whether targeting advertisements for jobs to younger workers violates age discrimination...
This study provides a nice reminder that our mind jumps to images we see in the news, or, it might have stated, in the movies. Images, or as social scientists have said for too long, "stereotypes", get in the way of listening to people, hearing their stories or...