CHAPTER 3

Understanding the ISMS

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Understanding the ISMS

“If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.” ― Toni Morrison

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Anti-fat Anti-fat bias is the discrimination or

prejudice based on a person's weight. It is generally seen as weight bias that can transcend to the workplace.

The prevalence of weight discrimination in the United States has increased by 66% over the past decade and is found to impact more women than men.

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Anti-fat Weight-based prejudice and

discrimination in employment settings indicating that overweight and obese workers face stereotypical attitudes from employers and disadvantages in hiring, wages, promotions, and job termination because of their weight.

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Anti-Fat Should weight discrimination be

illegal?

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Weight discrimination is not a protected class.

Adopting policies that eliminate this type of prejudicial attitudes could impact two-thirds of U.S. adults who are overweight or obese.

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Anti-fat

AGEISM

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AGEISM

Where ageism is the systematized stereotyping of and discrimination against people because they are “old.”

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Older Workers

Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) passed in 1967 promotes employment of workers at least age 40 based on ability rather than age.

Age discrimination is a growing problem due to downsizing, early retirement, and myths associated with the elderly.

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Benefits of Hiring Older Workers

Older workers can have important motivations driving them to succeed. Children in college are a huge incentive as the cost of higher education continues to outpace inflation.

Along with that motivation comes seriously focused workers with fewer distractions.

Generational Differences

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Generational Differences

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Generational Differences

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Generational Differences

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Generational Differences

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Generational Differences

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Generational Differences

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Generational Differences

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Generational Differences

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Generational Differences Self quiz MindSet List

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Generational Differences

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Gays & Lesbians in the Workplace

Gays and Lesbians in the workplace can be a touchy subject, why?

Fears that people have regarding homosexuality. But what does making a love choice have to do with how one performs at work?

Rather than seeing homosexuals as people with many facets to their personality and character, they are often judged by one factor and one factor alone—their choice of a love relationship.

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Gays & Lesbians in the Workplace The Civil Rights Act of 1964 has never

been amended to include discrimination against sexual orientation.

States have the right to determine if this type of discrimination is illegal.

Why do some people fear this group? They believe the myth that most child

molesters and sex offenders are homosexuals. Yet the largest group of sex offenders are heterosexual males.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer & Questioning (LGBTQ)

L stands for lesbian; G is for gay; B stands for bisexual and T means transgender. Q stands for Queer & Questioning

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TRANSGENDERISM "Transgendered" is a broad term that

encompasses cross-dressers, intersexed people, transsexuals and people who live substantial portions of their lives as other than their birth gender.

"Transgender" is a broad term used to encompass all manifestations of crossing gender barriers.

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Transgendered Employees and the Law

Just like sexual orientation there is no federal law that protects transgendered employees.

However, many states and local ordinances do have laws against gender identity discrimination.

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Transitioning in the Workplace As many as 200,000 people have gone

through a transition from male to female or female to male during the last several decades in the United States.

Perhaps 10,000 more do so each year. They often continue to work for the

same organization during and after transition.

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Transitioning Issues Discussing the transition with

management and employees Restroom Access Legal Name change Fair and equal treatment

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Classism

Classism is the systematic oppression of poor people and people who work for wages by those who have access to control of the necessary resources by which other people make their living.

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Classism

Classism is also held in place by a system of beliefs which ranks people according to economic status, "breeding," job and level of education.

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Is Classism Real? The United States has rising levels of

poverty and inequality not found in other rich democracies.

Since 2000, America's billionaire club has gained 76 more members while the typical household has lost income and the poverty count has grown by more than 5 million people.

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Wealth Pyramid How free are we

when 1% of the population controls 48% of the wealth?

And when the next 19% of the population controls 46% of the wealth?

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Leaving majority of the population to fight over the last % of the wealth

Does inter-fighting among groups due to difference, help

or hurt the acquisition of wealth?

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So how can Classism occur in America? Aren’t people free? Can’t anyone create wealth? Isn’t competition good? How can the “isms” prevent wealth

building? Doesn’t the government in the U.S.

control the economic resources like land, labor and capital?

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Three Economic SystemsCommunism Socialism Capitalism

Government controls all

Government controls most systems

Government controls fewer entities

No entrepreneurs

State planning/ entrepreneurs

Encourages entrepreneurship

China, Poland, N. Korea, Cuba

Canada, Sweden, Switzerland

America

Critical Thinking

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• Do you believe classism exists in the United States?

• How in a free society like the U.S., can a small group of people continually control so much of the wealth?