Equality and Discrimination

Every democratic country's laws and constitution, have inherent in it somewhere or the other, a law that entitles all of its citizens to be given free and equal treatment. From United Kingdom to Nigeria, or from one of the world's largest democracy India, to Australia. All countries guarantee to its citizens the right against discrimination.

Gilmore and Williams (2009) define discrimination as the means to distinguish between one thing and another. In terms of people, to discriminate means to choose one person over another based on something that is irrelevant. This discrimination can be on grounds of age, sex, marital status, gender, race, religion, belief, sexual orientation etc.

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Discrimination Gender Race

In a protected class, the unequal treatment of an individual is discrimination. Because of sex, gender, race, disability and national origin are causes of individual discrimination who suffers from unequal treatment. Moreover, there are many forms of discrimination such as gender discrimination, disability discrimination under the New Jersey Law against Discrimination and American with Disabilities Act (ADA), and racial discrimination, age discrimination under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) and the Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).

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