• But Lord Justice Mummery ruled that this still resulted in discrimination against women workers for several years until their salaries reached parity.

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  • Therefore, I could never believe in discrimination between human beings and races.

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  • Obama rarely highlights the fact that reform would provide protections against price differentials that often result in discrimination based on age and gender.

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  • Home Office minister Damian Green said the government was giving "active consideration" to cutting compensation payments in discrimination cases as part of its review of employment law.

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  • Ilan Meyer, a senior scholar at UCLA's School of Law, offers an explanation for these disparities through the "Theory of Minority Stress, " which suggests that these health inequities may be rooted in discrimination, with negative health behaviors acting as coping mechanisms for repeated exposure to stigma-related stress.

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  • Applications poured in reporting discrimination in places like Chicago, where there is no USDA office.

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  • The National Survey on Discrimination in Mexico made by the National Council to Prevent Discrimination in 2010 showed that 20% of people with disabilities are discriminated against.

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  • Latest research shows that, literacy and educational programs are instrumental in the prevention of HIV, as well as in reducing discrimination and the toolkit will play a significant role in the development of sustainable educational programmes on HIV, as well as in promoting acceptability and awareness.

    UNESCO: Protect, Prevent, Respect: Empower

  • The laws in question specifically prohibit discrimination in the workplace.

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  • He says their concern is battling bullying in schools, discrimination at work and proposed state laws like the "don't say gay" bill or one outlawing a private university from including sexuality in its anti-discrimination legislation.

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  • The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 forbids employment discrimination against anyone at least 40 years of age in the United States.

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  • The Obama administration and civil rights groups acknowledge progress in combating discrimination against African Americans and other minority groups, but argue Congress was justified in extending the provision in 2006.

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  • " Few wish to risk being seen as engaging in "discrimination, " let alone denounced for "homophobia.

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  • Bundling can play a part in price discrimination, as different bundles of goods and prices may appeal to different customers.

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  • Speaking for a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy did acknowledge an internal contradiction in employment discrimination law.

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  • As minister of state for pensions between 2003 and 2005, Mr Wicks helped in changing policy to stop age discrimination in the workplace.

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  • Mr. Koch maintained that responding would legitimize the question and could lead to discrimination against gay people in states where discrimination because of sexual orientation hadn't been outlawed.

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  • Nicholas Economides, of New York University, says that when firms have a measure of market power, they can engage in price discrimination, charging different prices to different customers.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • "The committee learned that women's experiences of the criminal justice system are different from men's and that some of these differences may stem from, or result in, discrimination or inequality, " she said.

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  • Holley says what derailed the offer was the White House's realization that he had been named in a sexual discrimination and harassment suit in 1989, while he was the editorial page editor at the San Diego Tribune.

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  • In 1960, UNESCO adopted the Convention against Discrimination in Education, which acknowledged the crucial role of education in ensuring equality of opportunity for members of all racial, national or ethnic groups.

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  • "The argument that the Obama administration has made is the Supreme Court should look at these laws very carefully because gays and lesbians are a group that have been subject to discrimination in the past and will be subject to discrimination going forward, " said Amy Howe, a legal analyst and editor of SCOTUSblog.com.

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  • Nor does it explain how Unilever came to be in violation of anti-discrimination rules in the first place.

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  • In the complicated and sensitive legal realm of sex discrimination in the workplace, it really remains to be seen.

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  • Title IX is a federal civic law in the U.S. which prohibits sex discrimination in education, therefore allowing women to compete in sports.

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  • For instance, in the Gautreaux Programme, an experiment to combat racial discrimination in Chicago's public housing in the late 1970s, poor blacks were given vouchers to move to the white suburbs.

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  • Discrimination In Schools: Title IX prohibits all forms of gender discrimination by educational institutions receiving federal funds, but the law looses its impact if those who try to uphold it can be discriminated against.

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  • The protections offered in the Voting Rights Act have been critical to reducing discrimination in voting in the more than four decades since the law was first passed, and continue to play an important role.

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  • In response, the workers argued that the ADEA prohibits age discrimination in all forms of employee benefits, including pension benefit accruals.

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  • Ms McGeady, who has worked at the college in Derry for 18 years, lost a tribunal case alleging religious discrimination in February 2010.

    BBC: North West Regional College

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