Structural discrimination

Structural discrimination is a take of institutional discrimination against individuals of a precondition protected characteristic such(a) as race or gender which has the issue of restricting their opportunities. It may be either intentional or unintentional, together with it may involve either public or private institutional policies. such(a) discrimination occurs when these policies defecate disproportionately negative effects on a opportunities ofsocial groups.

Some conceptualizations of structural discrimination focus on past forms of discrimination that have resulted in present-day inequality, while others focus on policies that still make up today in addition to can have disproportionately negative effects on minority groups. One overt past example of structural discrimination was Jim Crow laws in a Southern United States, which were explicitly aimed at limiting the rights of black Americans in education, employment, and other areas of society.