WGU D357 DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
Colorism - Answer -a process that privileges light over dark-skinned people of color in
areas such as income, education, housing, and the marriage market.
Employment hardship - Answer -jobless, involuntary part time work, and working
poverty.
Inter-ethnic employment discrimination - Answer -discrimination practiced by racial and
ethnic minority groups against other minorities.
Access discrimination - Answer -when people are denied employment opportunities, or
"access" to jobs, based on their race, sex, age, or other factors not related to
productivity.
Consumer racial profiling - Answer -differential treatment of consumers in the
marketplace based on race/ethnicity that constitutes denial of or degradation in the
products and/or services that are offered to the consumer.
Discouraged workers - Answer -people not currently looking for work because they
believe there are no jobs available for them, for various reasons, including
discrimination.
Glass ceiling - Answer -invisible barriers that confine minorities and women to certain
types of positions within organizations.
Glass walls - Answer -invisible barriers that confine minorities and women to certain
types of positions within organizations.
Racial microaggressions - Answer -brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or
environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile,
derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults.
Racial profiling - Answer -using someone's demographic characteristics to single them
out for scrutiny or differential treatment.
Racial socialization - Answer -behaviors, communications, and interactions concerning
their cultural heritage and the appropriate responses to racial hostility and discrimination
that black parents model and explain to black children.
Racialized sexual harassment - Answer -the combination of racial and sexual
harassment, which includes both sexual and racial derogatory behaviors, comments,
and demands, directed at a person because of their race and sex.
, Statistical discrimination - Answer -using observable characteristics (ex. Race, sex,
age) as proxies for information about the productivity of workers.
Treatment discrimination - Answer -when people are employed but are treated
differently once employed, receiving fewer job related rewards, resources, or
opportunities than they should receive based on job related criteria.
Underemployment - Answer -the employment of workers at less than their full potential,
including those working part time, temporary, or intermittent jobs but desiring regular full
time work; those working for lower wages than their skills would indicate or in positions
requiring considerably lower skills than they possess; and those involuntarily working
outside of their fields.
Allies - Answer -dominant group members and others not being uniquely oppressed in
a particular circumstance who work to end oppression through their support of and
advocacy for those who are oppressed.
Ambivalent sexism - Answer -the simultaneous holding of both hostile and "benevolent"
sexist beliefs about women; for example: "women are incompetent at work" and
"women must be protected".
Attribution errors - Answer -errors in estimating the influence of external factors (ex.
Situations or circumstance) and internal errors (ex. Personal qualities) when evaluating
the behavior of in group and out group members.
Aversive racism - Answer -the holding of egalitarian values and beliefs that one is
unprejudiced but still possessing negative feelings and beliefs about racial issues and
minority group members.
Benevolent sexism - Answer -a set of interrelated attitudes toward women that are
sexist while they are perceived as positive by the attitude holder.
Consumer racial profiling - Answer -differential treatment of consumers in the
marketplace based on race/ethnicity that constitutes denial of or degradation in the
products and/or services that are offered to the consumer.
Descriptive stereotyping - Answer -perceptions about how people do or will behave
based on their group memberships.
Discrimination - Answer -differential and pejorative actions that serve to limit the social,
political, or economic opportunities of members of particular groups.
Access discrimination - Answer -when people are denied employment opportunities, or
"access" to jobs, based on their race, sex, age, or other factors not related to
productivity.
Colorism - Answer -a process that privileges light over dark-skinned people of color in
areas such as income, education, housing, and the marriage market.
Employment hardship - Answer -jobless, involuntary part time work, and working
poverty.
Inter-ethnic employment discrimination - Answer -discrimination practiced by racial and
ethnic minority groups against other minorities.
Access discrimination - Answer -when people are denied employment opportunities, or
"access" to jobs, based on their race, sex, age, or other factors not related to
productivity.
Consumer racial profiling - Answer -differential treatment of consumers in the
marketplace based on race/ethnicity that constitutes denial of or degradation in the
products and/or services that are offered to the consumer.
Discouraged workers - Answer -people not currently looking for work because they
believe there are no jobs available for them, for various reasons, including
discrimination.
Glass ceiling - Answer -invisible barriers that confine minorities and women to certain
types of positions within organizations.
Glass walls - Answer -invisible barriers that confine minorities and women to certain
types of positions within organizations.
Racial microaggressions - Answer -brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or
environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile,
derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults.
Racial profiling - Answer -using someone's demographic characteristics to single them
out for scrutiny or differential treatment.
Racial socialization - Answer -behaviors, communications, and interactions concerning
their cultural heritage and the appropriate responses to racial hostility and discrimination
that black parents model and explain to black children.
Racialized sexual harassment - Answer -the combination of racial and sexual
harassment, which includes both sexual and racial derogatory behaviors, comments,
and demands, directed at a person because of their race and sex.
, Statistical discrimination - Answer -using observable characteristics (ex. Race, sex,
age) as proxies for information about the productivity of workers.
Treatment discrimination - Answer -when people are employed but are treated
differently once employed, receiving fewer job related rewards, resources, or
opportunities than they should receive based on job related criteria.
Underemployment - Answer -the employment of workers at less than their full potential,
including those working part time, temporary, or intermittent jobs but desiring regular full
time work; those working for lower wages than their skills would indicate or in positions
requiring considerably lower skills than they possess; and those involuntarily working
outside of their fields.
Allies - Answer -dominant group members and others not being uniquely oppressed in
a particular circumstance who work to end oppression through their support of and
advocacy for those who are oppressed.
Ambivalent sexism - Answer -the simultaneous holding of both hostile and "benevolent"
sexist beliefs about women; for example: "women are incompetent at work" and
"women must be protected".
Attribution errors - Answer -errors in estimating the influence of external factors (ex.
Situations or circumstance) and internal errors (ex. Personal qualities) when evaluating
the behavior of in group and out group members.
Aversive racism - Answer -the holding of egalitarian values and beliefs that one is
unprejudiced but still possessing negative feelings and beliefs about racial issues and
minority group members.
Benevolent sexism - Answer -a set of interrelated attitudes toward women that are
sexist while they are perceived as positive by the attitude holder.
Consumer racial profiling - Answer -differential treatment of consumers in the
marketplace based on race/ethnicity that constitutes denial of or degradation in the
products and/or services that are offered to the consumer.
Descriptive stereotyping - Answer -perceptions about how people do or will behave
based on their group memberships.
Discrimination - Answer -differential and pejorative actions that serve to limit the social,
political, or economic opportunities of members of particular groups.
Access discrimination - Answer -when people are denied employment opportunities, or
"access" to jobs, based on their race, sex, age, or other factors not related to
productivity.
