Minority men and women who perceived discrimination from their health care providers were less likely to be screened for colorectal or breast cancer, according to a report in the August issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Women who alert authorities to their organizations’ wrongdoing perceive that they suffer more retaliation than do men, reports an initial study published in the current issue of Organization Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Discrimination against overweight people—particularly women—is as common as racial discrimination, according to a study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University.

A policy monograph highlighting the need for federal protections against genetic discrimination in employment and insurance practices was released today by the American College of Physicians (ACP).

Two University of Oregon doctoral students dove into issues of transgender identities -- in the workplace and professional counseling -- and surfaced with a call for psychologists and vocational counselors to not only treat but to act as advocates for their clients -- and to help end discrimination in the workplace.

I live in a State known for racial discrimination. Those in Authority took many innocent lives. I'm not just referring to the pre-Civil rights days. The injustices continue to this day. Whether it's refusal to hire, unfair wages, biased expectations, or rejection of opportunity the discrimination continues. The purpose of this opinion is not to "bash" the bad guys. I wrote this information to encourage all people (but primarily people of color).

United Nations Special Reporter on the right to health, Paul Hunt, has criticized Sweden for what he called a discrimination of refugees without documents.

Crude historical depictions of African Americans as ape-like may have disappeared from mainstream U.S. culture, but research presented in a new paper by psychologists at Stanford, Pennsylvania State University and the University of California-Berkeley reveals that many Americans subconsciously associate blacks with apes.

A U.N. committee on women's rights claimed that polygamy in Saudi Arabia ran counter to the principle of equality between the sexes. The committee asked Saudi Arabia to end this practice.

The granting of an anti-discrimination exemption to defence contractor BAE Systems Australia has been welcomed by the South Australian Government.

Do anonymous job applications combat employment discrimination?

Pregnant women who have no access to maternity leave are more likely to have mental health problems than those who do.