Network Discrimination

(noun)

A form of discrimination in which groups hire individuals from their same group, or network, rather than reaching outside to new networks.

Related Terms

  • Gender Role

Examples of Network Discrimination in the following topics:

  • Women in the Workplace

    • Particular barriers to equal participation in the workplace included a lack of access to educational opportunities; prohibitions or restrictions on members of a particular gender entering a field or studying a field; discrimination within fields, including wage, management, and prestige hierarchies; and the expectation that mothers, rather than fathers, should be the primary childcare providers.
    • Challenges that remain for women in the workplace include the gender pay gap, the difference between women's and men's earnings due to lifestyle choices and explicit discrimination; the "glass ceiling", which prevents women from reaching the upper echelons within their companies; sexism and sexual harassment; and network discrimination, wherein recruiters for high-status jobs are generally men who hire other men.
  • Women in the Workplace

    • While occupational sexism and the glass ceiling will be explored in the section 'Inequalities of work," what follows is a discussion of barriers to equal participation in the work force, including access to education and training, access to capital, network discrimination and other factors.
    • As a result, recruiters for high-status jobs are predominantly white males, and tend to hire similar people in their networks.
    • Their networks are made up of mostly white males from the same socio-economic status, which helps perpetuate their over-representation in the best jobs.
  • Discrimination Against Individuals

    • Controversial attempts have been made to redress negative effects of discrimination.
    • Unfair discrimination usually follows the gender stereotypes held by a society.
    • Reverse discrimination is a term referring to discrimination against members of a dominant or majority group, including the city or state, or in favor of members of a minority or historically disadvantaged group.
    • Reverse discrimination may also be used to highlight the discrimination inherent in affirmative action programs.
    • Give an example of discrimination and reverse discrimination using examples of religious, gender, or racial prejudice
  • Analysis of Price Discrimination

    • The goal of price discrimination is for the seller to make the most profit possible .
    • In commerce there are three types of price discrimination that exist.
    • Price discrimination is a driving force in commerce.
    • Many examples of price discrimination are present throughout commerce including:
    • Gender based prices: uses price discrimination based on gender.
  • Examples of Price Discrimination

    • There are three types of price discrimination:
    • ): price discrimination is also prevalent within the publishing industry.
    • Methods of price discrimination include:
    • For example, a Ladies Night at a bar is a form of price discrimination.
    • These graphs show multiple market price discrimination.
  • Price Discrimination

    • Output can be expanded when price discrimination is very efficient, but output can decline when discrimination is more effective at extracting surplus from high-valued users than expanding sales to low valued users.
    • Although price discrimination is the producer's or seller's legal attempt to charge varying prices for the same product based on consumer demand, price discrimination can be illegal in some cases.
    • In third degree discrimination, it is not always advantageous to discriminate.
    • Price discrimination in intellectual property is also enforced by law and by technology.
    • Construct the concept of price discrimination relative to legal concerns in pricing
  • Sexism

    • Sexism is discrimination against people based on their perceived sex or gender.
    • Despite the increase in participation in sports, major network news coverage of women's sports has changed very little over the last 15 years.
    • Another example of gender discrimination is the disparity in wealth between men and women.
    • Women in some organizations are suing their employers claiming gender discrimination.
    • It is difficult to prove discrimination in such cases.
  • Gender Discrimination

    • Gender discrimination refers to prejudice or discrimination based on gender, as well as conditions that foster stereotypes of gender roles.
    • Gender discrimination, also known as sexism, refers to prejudice or discrimination based on sex and/or gender, as well as conditions or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on gender.
    • Many of the stereotypes that result in gender discrimination are not only descriptive, but also prescriptive beliefs about how men and women "should" behave.
    • There are several prominent ways in which gender discrimination continues to play a role in modern society.
    • Many also argue that the objectification of women, such as in pornography, also constitutes a form of gender discrimination.
  • Institutional Prejudice or Discrimination

    • Institutionalized discrimination refers to discrimination embedded in the procedures, policies or objectives of large organizations.
    • Institutionalized discrimination within the housing market also includes practices like redlining and mortgage discrimination.
    • Institutionalized discrimination within the housing market also includes practices like redlining and mortgage discrimination.
    • The achievement gap in education is another example of institutionalized discrimination.
    • Examine the legal cases that had an impact on institutional discrimination
  • Types of Networks

    • A storage area network (SAN) is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage.
    • A campus area network (CAN) is a computer network made up of an interconnection of LANs within a limited geographical area.
    • A backbone network is part of a computer network infrastructure that interconnects various pieces of network, providing a path for the exchange of information between different LANs or subnetworks.
    • Network performance management, including network congestion, are critical parameters taken into account when designing a network backbone.
    • Backbone networks are similar to enterprise private networks.
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