D357-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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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.
Study Guide Exam with Actual
Answers 2026 Updated.
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.
