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This article reads like it has been written or re-written by a staunch free-market libertarian; specifically, it alleges that states or governments are more discriminatory than private enterprise, and that market forces would not allow for discrimination. This language is not entirely consistent, so I can't be sure if it was originally written with a market-libertarian bias, or whether it was heavily redacted by someone with said bias. Either way, I'd highly recommend that this article be flagged for significant revision. Desmond Ravenstone (talk) 17:57, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
I added this section to the entry on employment discrimination because although the overview was mostly comprehensive in describing the area of law, it omitted a major aspect: the fact that employers cannot use practices that have a discriminatory impact, even if the practice is neutral and the employer has no intent to discriminate. Over the past two decades, disparate impact lawsuits have become an important way for employees to fight practices that hurt them (even unintentionally) and for employers to become aware of the potentially harmful effects of their business practices. (Posted by User:HLS Group 3''}
This article started out very focused on Employment discrimination law in the United States. I definitely agree that it needs to be expanded to include other countries. But given the large amount of information about United States law, would it be best to move that to its own article and have this give more of a summary of the issue? Perhaps keep the sections on unintentional discrimination and protected categories, and combine the other two into a "law" section, with links to articles on different countries's laws? Opine. --Alynna 23:32, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
The article asserts that laws "can prohibit discrimination on the basis of..." -- I don't think making a list of all the possible protected categories we can think of at the moment is really necessary - the law can prohibit discrimination on any grounds it sees fit. Maybe that sentence needs to be rephrased or contextualized somehow? I'm not sure what exactly is appropriate. Cheeser1 00:19, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
This is the first Wikipedia entry I've seen with first person narration ("I interviewed an out lesbian..."). This is fine for your class paper but not for an encyclopedic entry...it's not supposed to be all about anecdotes. This entry really needs to be fleshed out and rewritten with a broader discussion of employment discrimination, maybe more on the history of legal protections. I'm not sure how to write a general entry on this subject that isn't specific to one regional area.
--98.98.62.166 (talk) 16:00, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
In the US it Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (Civil Rights Act if 1964) in the UK it's Genuine occupational qualification (Sex Discrimination Act 1975) it should be noted Protected classes are often no absolute especially in Job is an Acting job. --Roguebfl (talk) 22:54, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
I believe, as many human rights advocates do, discrimination is an important problem regarding social and economic injustice. It does not allow people to receive the equal treatment and outcomes they deserve. Neither equality, nor justice will be achieved unless all the individuals in the society are given the same opportunities. Gender discrimination is especially an important issue because women belong to the group that is harmed by discrimination the most all around the world. Regardless of their race, personal choices and country of origins, they are more vulnerable to various problems as a big general group. Therefore, I would like to make these changes: The article lacks sufficient information about gender discrimination or it could be elaborated; it consists of a short paragraph of solely 6 lines. Moreover, the other sections of the entire article can be revised with the issues Feminist Economists underline. In other words, the other sections should be engendered. Orhand12 (talk) 21:50, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
The article is well written and covers most of the gaps in the previous version. New sections systematically cover the evidence, the competing theories, and policy issues. There are places where the integration of the earlier version with the new text needs attention. At places the old text is not integrated with the new one. For example, "markets punish the discriminator" paragraph indicates Becker shows this is the case, but then the new text talks about the failure of the theory to do so. (I suggest you write out the "markets punish" phrase in sentence form.) These inconsistencies need to be ironed out. Similarly, the government as discriminator. I suggest you delete that phrase, since the next sentence conveys the same idea. Another example: The minimum wage discussion at the end of this section is written from a perspective that suggests the government discriminates against workers by setting the minimum wage. This needs to be edited. The text at the end of the statistical evidence section needs attn: "Therefore, although not all of the unexplained gaps attribute to discrimination," If not discrimination, what are the alternatives for the "unexplained" gaps? Meaurement and data problems come to mind as argued by HK theorists. Make that clear. Another issue: I added a number of links to other Wikipedia articles. You need to go over the article and add these both in this article and in the key articles that you've linked it to (i.e. go to that Wiki article-->edit--> add [[ ]] whereever employment discrimination is mentioned (or you can edit in "employment discrimination" in related articles)BerikG (talk) 01:50, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
This paper is a long and well written Wikipedia paper. Because it is so long that it includes a lot of claims which are supported where appropriate with references. The contribution considers a variety of perspectives rather than relying on just the point of view of one or two scholar, such as feminist perspective and neoclassical perspectives on the employment discrimination. This paper is good about its frame or structure which is divided into five parts. Among those parts it is logical. The whole paper focuses on a clear topic about employment discrimination. Obviously the contribution takes an appropriate tone in providing competing points of view.--Kerensun (talk) 03:31, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
This article contains a lot of information! It is very useful and well written. I have just a few observations:
Corinabesliu1965 (talk) 07:25, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
I've read several articles online detailing the experiences of non-whites when applying to jobs(i.e. a person applying to a job with an "ethnic" sounding name has less of a chance of getting the job than someone who has a more "standard" name, regardless of experience/ qualifications). Since I've been extremely busy as of late, I don't have time to do extensive research on the issue and create a new section in this article regarding said issue, but if someone does have the time to do it, then by all means go for it! This isn't an issue that should be overlooked. Nelson Richards (talk) 23:02, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873 Nelson Richards (talk) 23:16, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/spring03/racialbias.html Nelson Richards (talk) 23:57, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/04/03/race-criminal-background-and-employment/ Nelson Richards (talk) 00:04, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
Being a PhD student in Labour Economics, I added a lot of literature today and tried to introduce more structure in the empirical part ("By region"). In my opinion, subsection "From experiments" is quite outdated. In my opinion at least the paragraphs starting with "The Fair Employment Council" and "Darity and Mason [1998]" should be dropped as they are not seminal at all. In addition, I would refer to subsection "By region" for empirical evidence. However, since these adaptations are quite substantial and since I am a new user, I first wanted to discuss this issue with you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.130.40.83 (talk) 15:40, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Under the gender and sexual orientation section, this article fails to highlight how only 20 states in the US protect against discrimination in the workplace by sexual orientation. It also fails to thoroughly explain how most states do not provide workplace discrimination protections on the basis of gender identity, meaning trans and non-binary people are susceptible to more unprotected workplace discrimination than their cisgender counterparts.[1]VC4396 (talk) 03:48, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
One could also draw a connection between the lack of protections on the basis of gender-identity and how trans people, on average, make less then $10,000 per year.[2] VC4396 (talk) 16:36, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
Therefore, I wonder:
1. What are some currently debated legislations that are combatting workplace discrimination in states that do not protect against it? VC4396 (talk) 03:48, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
2. How did each state that protects against workplace discrimination come to do so? VC4396 (talk) 03:48, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
3. For the states that provide protections, when did each protection pass and why? VC4396 (talk) 16:36, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
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Dr. Schlicht has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:
This is, overall, a very good article. I shall add some suggestions for improvement below.
My main concern is with splitting up labor market discrimination into wage and employment discrimination, as to be found in the labor market article. The reason is that with wage discrimination, a member of the discriminated group must be better qualified than a member of the group that is not discriminated. This can be seen as "employment discrimination" or "wage discrimination". Both go together and it may be better to treat them together.
As there is no entry for wage discrimination, I would suggest to rename the entry to "labor market discrimination" and cover both wage discrimination and employment discrimination.
Some points:
I miss a definition of "employment discrimination"
Taste discrimination and statistical discrimination have been developed for wage discrimination, not employment discrimination. That relates to my introductory remark.
The article fails to mention that taste discrimination and statistical discrimination are, according to standard theory, efficient: If people harbor discriminatory preferences, discrimination serves these preferences. As economics draws no distinction between a taste for chocolate and a taste for ethnicity, moral aspects are considered as a matter of taste. (This appears to some, such as myself, as a severs shortcoming of economic arguments in the context of discrimination and may deserve to be mentioned.)
Monopsonistic discrimination is not to be labelled under the heading of "institutional theory", as it is quite mainstream and also has a long tradition (Florence, Robinson, Manning). A survey is provided in http://ftp.iza.org/dp4915.pdf. Note that monopsonistic discrimination is, in contrast to taste discrimination and statistical discrimination, economically inefficient; see also http://www.semverteilung.vwl.uni-muenchen.de/mitarbeiter/es/paper/schlicht_discrimination.pdf.
Regarding discrimination, two definitions may be distinguished: a tight definition where two applicants that that are equally productive are treated differently for reasons unrelated to productivity or expected productivity, and a loose definition, where two applicants with minimal differences is productivity or expected productivity are treated very differently. For the latter case see section v in https://ideas.repec.org/h/lmu/muench/1254.html.
Further, there is efficiency wage discrimination, covered in http://wol.iza.org/articles/efficiency-wages-variants-and-implications-1.pdf and, more specifically, selection wage discrimination (https://ideas.repec.org/a/zbw/ifweej/20106.html) and turnover wage discrimination (https://ideas.repec.org/h/lmu/muench/1254.html).
I find the separation between neoclassical an non-neoclassical approaches problematic, because much too schematic; and leaving open what may be the distinguishing characteristics.
I hope that some of the above observations may be helpful
We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly.
We believe Dr. Schlicht has expertise on the topic of this article, since he has published relevant scholarly research:
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Justification for new “Equity-seeking group’s recommendations” section: Adding the perspective of the Equity-deserving group is essential to any research regarding that equity deserving group. By adding this section, we’re able to compare scientific research with lived expertise to ensure that the previous sections of government and employer interventions are grounded in the needs of the group and useful to them. Because this is essential, should be easy to navigate to and compare against every section of this article, it should have it’s own section.
Justification for "Muslim women" section: Muslim women section needed because there can be multiple paragraphs in this section from Muslim women from different countries, or with other intersecting identities that have different recommendations for example Queer Muslim women.
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There's a lot of relevant research that doesn't seem to be included in this article, including individual's self-perceptions when making hiring decisions, hiring discrimination within certain industries, and how various identities interact (i.e. race and gender, family and gender, race and sexual orientation) to affect discrimination. Additionally, despite having a by region section, the article only address North America and Europe, thus including information only on Western countries. However, employment discrimination poses a problem in every country in the world. As such, for a class, I'm considering revising the article to include this information as it would significantly improve the scope of the article. I've already conducted some preliminary research and have found the relevant sources below:
1. Reuben, Enesto, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales. "How stereotypes impair women's careers in science." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, no. 12 (March 2014): 4403-408. doi:10.1073/pnas.1314788111.
2. Petersen, Trond, and Thea Togstad. "Getting the offer: Sex discrimination in hiring." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 24, no. 3 (2006): 239-57. doi:10.1016/j.rssm.2006.06.001.
3. Booth, Alison, and Andrew Leigh. "Do employers discriminate by gender? A field experiment in female-dominated occupations." Economics Letters 107, no. 2 (May 2010): 236-38. doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2010.01.034.
4. Weichselbaumer, Doris. "Sexual Orientation Discrimination in Hiring." SSRN Electronic Journal, December 2003. doi:10.2139/ssrn.305140.
5. Altonji, Joseph G., and Rebecca M. Blank. "Chapter 48 Race and gender in the labor market." Handbook of Labor Economics, 1999, 3143-259. doi:10.1016/s1573-4463(99)30039-0.
6. Kuhn, Peter, and Kailing Shen. "Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Evidence from China*." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 128, no. 1 (November 18, 2012): 287-336. doi:10.1093/qje/qjs046.
7. Petit, Pascale. "The effects of age and family constraints on gender hiring discrimination: A field experiment in the French financial sector." Labour Economics 14, no. 3 (June 2007): 371-91. doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2006.01.006.
8. Newman, Constance J., Daniel H De Vries, Jeanne D'arc Kanakuze, and Gerard Ngendahimana. "Workplace violence and gender discrimination in Rwanda's health workforce: Increasing safety and gender equality." Human Resources for Health 9, no. 1 (July 19, 2011). doi:10.1186/1478-4491-9-19.
9. Uhlmann, Eric Luis, and Geoffrey L. Cohen. "Constructed Criteria: Redefining Merit to Justify Discrimination." Psychological Science 16, no. 6 (June 1, 2005).
10. Fuegen, Kathleen, Monica Biernat, Elizabeth Haines, and Kay Deaux. "Mothers and Fathers in the Workplace: How Gender and Parental Status Influence Judgments of Job-Related Competence." Journal of Social Issues 60, no. 4 (November 8, 2004): 737-54. doi:10.1111/j.0022-4537.2004.00383.x.
11. Grün, Carola. "Direct and indirect gender discrimination in the South African labour market." International Journal of Manpower 25, no. 3/4 (2004): 321-42. doi:10.1108/01437720410541425.
12. Bell, Linda. "Women-Led Firms and the Gender Gap in Top Executive Jobs." IZA Working Paper, July 2005.
13. Duncan, Colin, and Wendy Loretto. "Never the Right Age? Gender and Age-Based Discrimination in Employment." Gender, Work and Organization 11, no. 1 (November 27, 2003): 95-115. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0432.2004.00222.x.
14. Uhlmann, Eric Luis, and Geoffrey L. Cohen. "“I think it, therefore it’s true”: Effects of self-perceived objectivity on hiring discrimination." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 104, no. 2 (November 2007): 207-23. doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.07.001.
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Although some comments pointed out the US bias and non-neutral writing in this article some time ago, if those problems were fixed it seems as if they have been re-introduced. The page seems mostly to concern the US and doesn't list other countries. The section "Why the government should intervene to address discrimination" should be renamed and rewritten to be more balanced. I don't see a reason to include the next section on the US during World War II, which either belongs in an article about US employment discrimination or perhaps it's own article?
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