The U.S. Supreme Court on June 5 made it easier for workers to file so-called "reverse discrimination" lawsuits after siding with Ohio worker Marlean Ames who claimed she didn't get a job and was ...

Most people know that the law protects them from being discriminated against by their employer on the basis of race, gender, disability, and a variety of other protected characteristics. Some ...

Age discrimination can have a substantially detrimental effect on the working environment of a small business. Not only can age discrimination damage positive and efficient working relationships, it ...

Sometimes discrimination is easy to spot. Many forms of unfair treatment toward an individual of a certain group are hard to deny. The most obvious examples may include acts of violence or offensive ...

With the Trump administration threatening to cut off its federal support, Harvard recently released its long-awaited internal report detailing rampant national-origin discrimination on campus – ...

Positive discrimination is when a person receives favourable treatment, usually because they are from an underrepresented group in society. In the workplace, this is common in the recruitment process ...

Sometimes history seems to be at a tipping point. Masses take to streets; statues come down. People combine hopefulness and fear. Possibility is in the air. Several essays in this series have focused ...