Protected Categories
Laws often prohibit discrimination on the basis of
- Race or color
- Ethnicity or national origin
- Sex or gender
- Pregnancy
- Religion or creed
- Political affiliation
- Language abilities
- Citizenship
- Disability or medical condition
- Age
- Sexual orientation
- Gender identity
- Marital status
Read more about this topic: Employment Discrimination
Famous quotes containing the words protected and/or categories:
“Wasn’t marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn’t it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?”
—Edna Ferber (1887–1968)
“Kitsch ... is one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of “trashy,” sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the “cliché” in discourse.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)