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Contribution Proposal: Wikipedia Page to Edit: “Discrimination in the United States” Under Subsection: Today

Today:

Racial discrimination:

Racial Discrimination is still very much common and prevalent in today's society. In the wake of Baltimore, Ferguson, New York City and elsewhere, most of us are at least somewhat aware of the nature of police violence against the black community in urban settings. There has been countless deaths, but some would say the current focus and exposure to police brutality stemmed from the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012. Trayvon Benjamin Martin was a 17-year-old African American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, in Sanford, Florida. His death sparked the Black Lives Matter movement, an international activist movement that campaigns against violence towards black lives. The Black Lives Matter campaign became nationally recognized after the street protests and demonstrations following the deaths of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, and Eric Gardner, in New York City. Both, black males, were unarmed at the time of their death. Another recurring name is Sandra Bland, who was pulled over for a minor traffic accident. She was then found dead in a Texas jail under conditions many describe as suspicious, although suicide was listed as her official cause of death.

U.S. Police have killed 776 people in 2015, 161 of whom were completely unarmed at the time of their death. Though police killed more whites than any other race with 385 deaths, activists like the members of the Black Lives Matter movement argue that police kill blacks at a rate disproportionate to their total percentage of the population — an assertion supported by The Guardian’s statistics. Police killed almost five black people per every million black residents of the U.S., compared with about 2 per million for both white and hispanic victims.

In addition to blatant racist crimes towards the black community, the muslim community has been targeted more recently with ISIS becoming a national problem. After 9/11, there has been a growing Islamophobia in the United States. GOP candidate, Donald Trump had previously called for surveillance over mosques and hoped to establish a database for all Muslims living in the U.S. Most recently, Trump has called for total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S. His plea comes right after suspects of the San Bernardino shooting are thought to be affiliated with ISIS.

Gender Discrimination:

Gender discrimination is another form of discrimination. The United States has a form of gender stratification that ranks men above women. In the working world, women are often seen as an expense to their employers because they take days off for children, need time off for maternity leave and are stereotyped as "more emotional". There are four main gender biases against women in the working world, especially in the STEM fields: Prove it Again, Tightrope, Maternal Wall, and Tug of War.

• Prove it Again: Notion where women have to constantly prove themselves over and over again.

• Tightrope: Notion where women must walk across a tightrope between standing their ground and coming off as too assertive/masculine, or being feminine, but being pushed over. Women must choose between being respected and not liked, or liked but not respected.

• Maternal Wall: Women hit the maternal wall when they encounter workplace discrimination because of past, present, or future pregnancies or because they have taken one or more maternity leaves.

• Tug of War: Gender bias can fuel conflict amongst women. Women often feel they are competing for the "women spot," and thus creating animosity in the workplace.

The theories that goes hand in hand with this are known as the Glass Ceiling and Glass Escalator.[7] The “Glass Ceiling” is a phenomenon where women reach an unofficially acknowledges barrier of advancement, ie. A ceiling, within their professions. The Glass Escalator entails that while women are being held down in male dominated professions, men often rise quickly to positions of authority in fields with mostly women professionals, such as teaching and nursing. Men are pushed forward into management even surpassing women who have been at the job longer and with more experience in the field.

Men's rights deals with discrimination against men in the areas of family law such as divorce and child custody, labor such as paternity leave, paternity fraud, health, education, conscription, and other areas of the law such as domestic violence and allegations of rape.

There is definitely an intersectionality of racial discrimination in the workplace. Black college graduates are twice as likely as whites to struggle to find jobs - the jobless rate for blacks has been double that of whites for decades. A study even found that people with “black-sounding names” had to send out 50 percent more job applications than people with “white-sounding names” just to get a call back. It gets worse the higher up the pay scale you go. For every $10,000 increase in pay, blacks’ percentages of holding that job falls by 7 percent compared to whites.