To discriminate is to make a distinction. There are several meanings of the word, including statistical discrimination, or the actions of a circuit called a discriminator. This article addresses the most common meaning of the word, social, racial, religious, sexual and ethnic discrimination. 1.1 DEFINITION Discrimination involves formally or informally classifying people into different groups and according the members of each group distinct, and typically unequal, treatments, rights and obiligations. The criteria delineating the groups, such …showed first 75 words of 2048 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2048 total…action suits get a lot of attention, their numbers have plummeted in the past two decades, from 1,174 in 1976 under an activist EEOC to just 68 in 1996 as a short-staffed and underfunded agency has focused primarily on high-profile cases. The result, say legal experts, is that solid cases that might once have been resolved by the EEOC are now being rejected by the agency, leaving workers no choice but to file individual lawsuits or abandon their cases.