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What is Employment Discrimination

Chapter 18
Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media
It is a form of discrimination based on race, gender, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, sexual orientation, and gender identity by employers. Earnings differentials or occupational differentiation—where differences in pay come from differences in qualifications or responsibilities—should not be confused with employment discrimination. Discrimination can be intended and involve disparate treatment of a group or be unintended, yet create disparate impact for a group.
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Case Study of Gender and Career Choices: Being and Becoming Medical People
Uğur Gündüz (Faculty of Communication, Istanbul University, Turkey) and Nilüfer Pembecioğlu (Faculty of Communication, Istanbul University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 39
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6825-5.ch018
Abstract
This chapter aims to provide information about the situation of being female in the medical field and facing gender inequality. The medical education opportunities are put into the spotlight to see the possible factors affecting the choices and consequences. Apart from the traditional structure and the sociological analysis of the situation, the chapter also involves the results of two different types of research in the field. The data collection in general includes a close-ended questionnaire reaching 500 young females aiming to collect data in the field of education as well as face to face interviews with 30 medical field workers. The chapter is an attempt to prove that becoming an idealist person is the only solution left to the women to be and become a valued person in society.
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Overcoming Racism and Discrimination: Experiences of Vietnamese ESL Teachers in Canada
Discrimination in the workplace where internationally trained teachers are treated unfairly and barred from getting jobs and work-related benefits.
Published in Chapter: Overcoming Racism and Discrimination: Experiences of Vietnamese ESL Teachers in Canada; From: Interrogating Race and Racism in Postsecondary Language Classrooms
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