Institutional Discrimination (Sexism and Racism)

institutional racism/sexism

organizational and societal discrimination against people of color/women

institutional racism/sexism is

-often unintentional

-systemic

-no one to blame (always been in the system)

-difficult to change

-different than racism/sexism

vega model

cultural biases→individual prejudices→institutional discrimination→ continuous

ex. no lines for

-male and female

-white and non-white

-class

except bathroom no one is allowed to be divided by these standards

job examples

-policemen vs. police officers

-firemen vs. firefighters

it is

doing gender and race

don’t use

? cultural bias