scholarly journals Reducing Sexual-Orientation Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Basic Information Treatments

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cevat Giray Aksoy ◽  
Christopher S. Carpenter ◽  
Ralph De Haas ◽  
Mathias Dolls ◽  
Lisa Windsteiger
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Orientation Discrimination ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Sexual Orientation Discrimination

scholarly journals Reducing Sexual-Orientation Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Basic Information Treatments

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cevat Giray Aksoy ◽  
Christopher S. Carpenter ◽  
Ralph De Haas ◽  
Mathias Dolls ◽  
Lisa Windsteiger
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
World Health ◽  
Orientation Discrimination ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Randomized Experiments ◽  
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Health Organization

We study basic information treatments regarding sexual orientation using randomized experiments in three countries with strong and widespread anti-gay attitudes: Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Participants who received information about the economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to support equal employment opportunities based on sexual orientation. Information that the World Health Organization (WHO) does not regard homosexuality as a mental illness increased social acceptance of sexual minorities, but only for those who reported trust in the WHO. Our results have important implications for policy makers aiming to expand the rights of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people worldwide.

scholarly journals Sexual Orientation and the Canadian Labour Movement

2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 787-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Organizational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Orientation Discrimination ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ◽  
Regional Dynamics ◽  
Canadian Labour Congress

The response of the Canadian labour movement to sexual orientation discrimination has been mixed and uneven. The Canadian Labour Congress, along with several provincial federations and a grouping number of unions, have taken a leadership role in promoting equal rights for gays and lesbians, while other labour organizations have done nothing at all. Public sector and Canadian based unions are much more likely to have been active than have American-based unions, even though there are important exceptions to these trends. These developments are partially explained by regional dynamics, membership demographics, degree of activism, the presence of women's committees, and organizational leadership.

Dignity and Disgrace: Moral Citizenship and Constitutional Protection

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
South African ◽  
Orientation Discrimination ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Constitutional Protection ◽  
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ◽  
Moral Citizenship ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
South African Constitution

Apartheid’s race discrimination branded blacks inferior, leaving a residue of indignity that was perceived and experienced as shameful. This explains the pivotal significance of dignity in the South African Constitution. Hence the Constitutional Court has created a normative framework for South Africans to assert personhood without the shameful stigmata of past subordination. The Court’s strong protection of sexual orientation is best understood against this backdrop. While there is no ready comparison between race and sexual orientation discrimination, both brand those they subordinate as inferior and thus as the objects of shame. The Court’s jurisprudence on gays and lesbians has, therefore, afforded equality, but also addressed the shameful subordination of the past by enabling gays and lesbians to assert themselves as equal moral citizens who can fulfil their capacities as humans without shame.

4. Discrimination in Employment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Smith ◽  
Aaron Baker ◽  
Owen Warnock
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Employment Discrimination ◽  
Orientation Discrimination ◽  
Religious Discrimination ◽  
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ◽  
Indirect Discrimination ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Discrimination In Employment ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

This chapter discusses anti-discrimination law in the UK in the employment sphere. After providing a brief history of the development of UK discrimination law, it introduces the Equality Act 2010, explaining the forms of discrimination it covers and how it works. Key concepts of equality law are then discussed, such as direct and indirect discrimination and unique mechanisms for proving a discrimination claim. After outlining the remedies available in discrimination actions, the chapter then explores issues specific to discrete grounds of discrimination. This analysis tackles sex-discriminatory dress codes, the problem of what counts as an ‘ethnicity’, and the apparent clash between protections against sexual orientation discrimination and religious discrimination. Finally, the specialized approaches to disability and age discrimination under the Equality Act are explained, rounding out a comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of UK employment discrimination law.

scholarly journals Is Sexual-Orientation Discrimination a Form of Sex Discrimination?

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-386
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Sex Discrimination ◽  
Orientation Discrimination ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ◽  
Direct Discrimination ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Uk Supreme Court ◽  
The Uk

Abstract In Bostock v Clayton County (2020) Gorsuch J holds that direct discrimination because of sexual orientation is a form of direct discrimination because of sex. I argue that the same is true under the Equality Act 2010. I consider the arguments of (Finnis, in: Finnis (ed) Intention and identity: collected essays, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011) and (Gardner in Oxf J Leg Stud 18(1):167–187, 1998) that “because of”, “on grounds of”, and similar phrases in UK discrimination legislation invoke the state of mind of the discriminator. I apply this point to Bull and Bull v Hall and Preddy [2013] arguing that (i) the UK Supreme Court was wrong to find direct discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, while, (ii), nevertheless, under the Equality Act 2010, that case and similar cases actually involve direct discrimination because of sex, not because of sexual orientation. I conclude by considering some objections, precedents, and implications.

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