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• Sex Discrimination Act, the
  1. a British law passed in 1975 to prevent sex DISCRIMINATION (= unfair treatment of someone because of their sex), especially in employment and education
• age discrimination (noun)
  1. unfair treatment of people because they are old [=  ageism British English]
• freedom from discrimination (noun)
  1. law immunity from discrimination on the basis of race, sex, nationality, religion or age; guaranteed by federal laws of the United States
• non-discrimination (noun)
  1. fairness in treating people without prejudice
• positive discrimination (noun)
  1. the practice of giving a particular number of jobs, places at university etc to people who are often treated unfairly because of their race, sex etc [=  affirmative action American English]
• racial discrimination (noun)
  1. discriminatory or abusive behaviour towards members of another race
• reverse discrimination (noun)
  1. the practice of giving unfair treatment to a group of people who usually have advantages, in order to be fair to the group of people who were unfairly treated in the past [↪  positive discrimination]
• sex discrimination (noun)
  1. treating people unfairly because they are women, or because they are men
• sexual discrimination (noun)
  1. usually women usually in employment discrimination that excludes one sex to the benefit of the other sex
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