Discrimination is prejudiced treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction towards, a being based on the group, class, or category to which they are perceived to belong. These include age, caste, criminal record, height, disability, family status, gender identity, gender expression, generation, genetic characteristics, marital status, nationality, color, race and ethnicity, religion, sex and sex characteristics, sexual orientation, social class, species, as well as other categories.
In Polish universities there are more and more problems related to discrimination. The techniques are sophisticated and the practice is called discrimination in white gloves. Discrimination is prohibited and is becoming more common.
Sara Edyta Gheribi
You have raised a very pertinent question. In India, there are a plethora of laws and Acts to prohibit discrimination in any form but discrimination is witnessed in many workplaces. It is high time that people from all sections must come forward and put their effort to prohibit such discriminations.
Dear Madan Biswal, thank you for participating in the discussion. And what is the procedure in India in case of discrimination. What a victim can do, how to defend him/herself? In Poland, the most often guilty are not guilty of tormenting the victim. Fatal victims are becoming more frequent. Discriminated persons commit suicide. Unfortunately, even in such cases, the torturers often do not bear any fault. Recently, the rector of polish university, tormented by his colleagues, committed suicide. The perpetrators were not incur a penalty.
Yes. The law and University policies prohibit discrimination. However there are some subtle ways by which it is still done. I will quote one example. Despite my protestations a person who was the most qualified to fill a certain position was not selected mainly based on the person's average English fluency ( a proxy for ethnicity). The person selected (majority race) quit after 5 months.
There are many methods of discrimination in white gloves, and at universities the methods are very sophisticated. Therefore, most often the perpetrators are explained by lawyers that the victim was guilty of themself, for example because of his personality traits.
The only time I experienced discrimination at work, I was working for a private multinational company. In public administrations such as Universities or Research Councils I never fond out discrimination at the highest levels in Italy. I saw discrimination in public administrations among men and women with lower profiles. The definition of Edyta is a great one. The private company I worked for was a multicultural one.
Dear Francesca, thank you very much for participating in the discussion and sharing experiences.
Yes! Just recently a tenured faculty who has completely ignored the Union specifications for class assignments for adjunct faculty giving herself the majority of classes, then her 'close' associates and when noted doing the bare minimum assigning classes to the long term (currently who've earned seniority) faculty who do not 'look' like her and are much older.
I find it exhausting and belittling to 'fix' the errors of these blatant microaggressions; however, they do impact my livlihood and the morale of our department. Now even that has been dismantled so that the current senority 'list' is being dismembered thereby creating yet another issue for the people being directly effected deleteriously by this person's actions that is sanctioned by her immediate department heads.
Its really psychologically draining once a work environment becomes toxic when power is placed in the hands of someone who chooses to use that power maniacally to disadvantage some and prioritize others.
Dear Lisa,
I agree with you that it's really psychologically draining once a work environment becomes toxic when power is placed in the hands of someone who chooses to use that power maniacally to disadvantage some and prioritize others. I also feel exhausted and the fight is uneven.
What helps me is to think of the situation as a learning pad from which to launch. I take my creative ideas and frame them in psychic spaces aka my mind ☺️ where they're kept to keep me energized. Its where I go to keep me charged until eventually I find myself somewhere else, literally, where I am appreciated and not underestimated or undertilized for my talents.
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