Direct discrimination occurs when treating people less favorably than others because of their sex, skin color, ethnic origin, political opinion, disability, age, class, previous conviction, etc whereas indirect discrimination arises when applying a requirement which puts a racial group, a gender, disabled people, a section of the population, etc, at a disadvantage. ... Examples of gender discrimination are when women are paid less than men for the same work, pregnant women are not given light duty, selection tests are too rigid for women, etc. In some cases, even men can be discriminated again...

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The first independent variable was a test given to the participant consisting of two levels: math or verbal test. ... Participants were told that the study was being conducted to see "how mood affects physical and mental performance, and would be completing two handgrip measurements and a test similar to the SAT." ... After participants were informed that they would take a verbal or math test (although, none was actually given) and then were manipulated across the stereotype threat variable. In the stereotype threat variable, half of the participants were told that either the math or verbal te...

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More specifically, they are a specialty chemical manufacturer of water testing supplies for industrial, commercial, institutional, laboratory and home use. ... "The market for our products is, quite simply, wherever water is tested," "The possibilities are endless" Mr. ... Their mission statement speaks to their continued level of excellence and commitment throughout the water testing industry. "At Taylor Technologies, we are committed to develop, manufacture, market and support innovative, quality test kits and reagents to be used wherever water is tested" which ...

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By emphasizing social and cultural influences, dimensions she felt Freud overlooked, not only did Horney challenge Freud's psychosexual view of personality, she pioneered a new dimension to psychological thought: gender-based psychology. ... While a well-structured theory, with distinct descriptions of personality styles, Maltby, Day & Macaskill, (2010) argue that Horney's concepts are essentially vague and lack testability. ...

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Which in respond to this the 1995 revision of the ethical standards, the American Counseling Association (ACA) included specific excerpts requiring counselors to respect diversity, avoid discrimination, and demonstrate cultural sensitivity when engaging in direct client services, research, education, testing, computer applications, public communications, and relationships with employers and employees (ACA, 1995). ... Researchers have stated the need to prepare professionals to become more skillful in dealing with ethical dilemmas, particularly those involving multicultural issues in the area o...

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Which in respond to this the 1995 revision of the ethical standards, the American Counseling Association (ACA) included specific excerpts requiring counselors to respect diversity, avoid discrimination, and demonstrate cultural sensitivity when engaging in direct client services, research, education, testing, computer applications, public communications, and relationships with employers and employees (ACA, 1995). ... Researchers have stated the need to prepare professionals to become more skillful in dealing with ethical dilemmas, particularly those involving multicultural issues in the area o...

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There should be no discrimination in offering counseling services regardless of gender, political and religious grounds, race or any other factor and in case a counsel cannot be able to maintain this due to some connections with the client, he or she is expected to pass the case to someone else (Foster and Black, 2007). ...

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However his ideas of lowering spending, eliminating programs that do not pass certain tests and being very reluctant to borrow from china and an policy of attrition for me doesn't clearly explain what he would do to fix the deficit, these are only vague statements that come across well. ... Obama's other health care policies are that insurance companies are unable to arbitrarily cap and cancel, or charge women more simply because of their gender , is a strong statement that automatically has an impacted on half the population in America. ...

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Mainly all of the conventional and traditional explanations of violence aim to account for the regularity of the various forms of isolated and self-contained violent incidents in such singular units, such as gender, class and ethnicity, which in turn they all relate to differences in biology, psychology, sociology, and culture. ...

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In the 1996 election, this bond was tested when the term 'Howard's Battlers' was ascribed to those 'blue collar' voters in western Sydney that were now voting Liberal, who helped swing the election because they felt ignored by the Labor party. ... The foundations that nurture the prevailing link between the party systems and various socio-economic groups stems from a range of characteristics; such as gender, ethnicity and religion. ...

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Over the past century, significant efforts have been made to understand the effects of race on criminal justice processing and sentencing. As a result of this research, sentencing policies have undergone numerous periods of reform. Yet, racial disparities in sentencing outcomes and incarceration rates continue to give rise to serious questions about how and through what processes race continues to affect sentencing outcomes. In this essay, we will review the scholarly research on race and sentencing, and discuss a number of important sentencing reforms that have taken place in the U.S. over th...

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