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George Bernard Shaw, in his preface to The Doctor's Dilemma, summarised his conclusions as follows: 'Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor.' His solutions included making doctors into 'civil [...]

The National Organization for Women (NOW) is involved in two harassment issues that indict an automaker and the military. NOW has staged pickets outside Mitsubishi dealerships to protest the company's practice of race and sex discrimination. Because of these protests, Mitsubishi made a commitment to create a workplace that is free from sexual harassment and discrimination. Meanwhile, NOW has initiated the creation of an independent rapid response team that is composed of veteran investigators who will investigate rape and harassment complaints of military women.

Banking regulators who worked to revise the Community Reinvestment Act to require reporting of gender and ethnic data are now wondering if the requirement will make any change or be detrimental to discrimination prevention. The regulators say that a lending decision is based upon more than the loan application and many times a commercial applicant will not file an application until they are certain of approval, which would lead to erroneous statistics. Banks might also make questionable loans if this data is collected., WASHINGTON -- Top federal banking regulators on Thursday questioned the effectiveness of the new reporting requirements that they themselves proposed in an effort to overhaul the Community Reinvestment Act. Federal [...]

Done well, diversity training can help people change their attitudes toward each other. Done badly, it can do more harm than good You're not a member of the Ku Klux […]

Two proposed ethics rules have been put on the back burner by the American Bar Association (ABA) to give bar groups a chance to debate the issue. The proposals were [...]

It is believed that discrimination on the basis of job applicants' names can be eliminated if the Equality Bill were to provide for 'no names.' Trends show that there could be a subliminal discard of job applications due to a bias of some sort. Information about an experiment which will determine whether there is discrimination against those with foreign-sounding names is also presented.

Hollywood's labor unions aren't exactly famous for getting along, but they recently joined forces to launch a major disability rights campaign: Inclusion in the Arts & Media of People with [...]

Financial services is facing up to big implications from the Government's plans to outlaw discrimination against people on grounds of age or sexual orientation. The issues have come to the, […]

Boston's Arabs have made a major step in combating discrimination against Arabs with the recent opening of an AmericanArab Anti-Discrimination Committee/Massachusetts office in Boston's Copley Square. According to Merrie Nagimy, [...]

"I'M A LAWYER, but my dad was a shoemaker." That's my favorite line in this month's often hilarious cover story about "the long, happy life of America's anti-defamation industry" ("E […]

THE demonstration staged recently by ACORN, an economic justice activist group, on the steps of City Hall drew attention to the issue of predatory lending. This is the ugly practice [...]