Not exact matches
Science itself can drive our conversations about the importance of diversity, as it provides us
with the data to understand how
systemic bias and
discrimination impact our communities and how best to change it.»
For every workplace where co-ed beer pong tournaments end
with a round of respectful fist bumps, there's another where women employees report
systemic discrimination or unwanted come - ons.
Like a heavyweight boxer whose momentum had turned, Kalanick has taken punch after punch this year, from the outrage in January over his association
with Donald Trump, to the widely - viewed video of his berating an Uber driver, to the explosive blog post by an ex-employee alleging
systemic sexual
discrimination at Uber, to Google's (googl) charges of theft of its self - driving car technology.
Recently, several prominent national education organizations (including the NEA, AERA, AFT, and NCTE) have called for addressing equity in schools and society, specifically recommending that we need to highlight the «
systemic patterns of inequity — racism and educational injustice — that impacts our students,» and that educators and school leaders «receive the tools, training, and support they need to build curricula
with substantive exploration of prejudice, stereotyping, and
discrimination.»
So investigators went looking for
systemic discrimination, and in their view found it: «Schools
with higher percentages of black students established stricter punishment for discipline incidents.»
«The difficulty is that the Supreme Court has said on a number of occasions that Aboriginal people face
systemic discrimination in the criminal justice system,» says Rudin, «and this case doesn't really let us figure out how we're going to deal
with that question.
As such, they were «entirely congruent»
with the complaint of institutional bias the Registrant sought to have heard by the Committee, which was essentially a complaint of
systemic discrimination because of racial origin.
The Tribunal concluded that there was both individual
discrimination against Jeffrey and
systemic discrimination against students
with severe learning disabilities in general, for which the Province and the School District were responsible.
Women, especially Indigenous women, deal
with ongoing
systemic racism, poverty,
discrimination, homelessness or at risk of being homeless, mental health, addiction, and stereotyping.
Last week, the United States Department of Justice issued a consent decree against the Law School Admission Council, the non-profit group that administers the test, accusing it of «widespread and
systemic discrimination» and contravening the Americans
with Disabilities Act.
Moreover, even if a complainant has a right of appeal to a court, the court only has jurisdiction over individual complaints, and can not in an individual case deal
with systemic issues of
discrimination: Brar v. British Columbia Veterinary Medical Association, 2007 BCHRT 363 at para. 43 onward.
In other words, this would be for a collective of licensees who have repeatedly refused to comply
with a number of the other initiatives that are focused on
systemic discrimination in the workplace.
«As a result,
systemic racism (together
with age
discrimination) constitutes a mitigating factor that should be taken into account in deciding appropriate discipline.»
Employers
with the potential for
systemic discrimination issues, beware.
Equity deals not only
with overt
discrimination but the
systemic factors that give rise to it.