Discrimination in the workplace: Women, ethnicity, religion, age, appearance, LGBT.

Summary Discrimination is pervasive, creeping into every stage of a career path, from application to hiring to loss of employment to opportunities for promotion. It even manifests itself in the education years, in?uencing skill acquisition as well as career choices. The causes, costs and measurement of discrimination in the workplace are the subject of numerous research studies and experiments, and this innovative book presents the results for a wide range of social groups: women, seniors, LGBT people, ethnic and religious minorities, and people discriminated against because of their physical appearance. This book is also the first to propose a series of measures which, well beyond a strictly punitive approach, show that discrimination in the workplace is not inevitable and can be fought.