New York Greatest Hits of Workplace Discrimination
The Leveling The Playing Field Institute just conducted a study of workplace unfairness and reported some of the most blatant acts of employment discrimination in New York:
- A male Arab finance professional reported that "One of my coworkers was buying a new house so we went to Google maps to look it up. It's a satellite image so you can zoom in and see an image of the actual house. Another co-worker walked by and said, "What, are you selecting a target?"
- A female African-American attorney reported that ”I worked with a particular senior attorney for years and one morning I went into his office to talk to him. In the middle of the conversation, he looks up at me and says, 'Wait a minute, you're not [the name of the other black associate]."
- A Latino banking executive reported that, "I was top in my class...then the ceiling hit fast...when word spread that I was vocal about hot topics like education reform and immigrant issues, I was marginalized at work functions."
- A lesbian retail professional said that, "We found out that our company offered pet health insurance, including unusual pets like pigs, rats and snakes but they didn't offer same sex domestic partner benefits."
- A Latina technology professional reported that, "My manager told me I was too 'ethnic' looking to be taken seriously."
- An Asian female attorney said that, "When I had errors on my work, even it was really minor, the partner would say, 'There is an English problem here,' instead of just calling it a typo."
Read the whole story here at PNN Online.
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