Key Terms

adverse impact discrimination	Doing something that is not necessarily discriminatory on its face but that impacts some groups more negatively than others.



affirmative action	Any policy that is taken to speed up the process of achieving equality.



disparate treatment discrimination	Treating two otherwise equal people differently on the basis of race or gender



rational or statistical discrimination	Unequal treatment of classes of people that is based on sound statistical evidence and is consistent with profit maximization. Also called statistical discrimination.

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