Saturday, December 8, 2012

Ethnic minorities in UK discriminated at work

A report from British Parliament says that ethnic minority women suffer from discrimination in employment. Some of them have even decided to remove their hijabs and adopt an “English” sounding name in order to find a job. Minority ethnic women are more than twice as likely to be unemployed as white women. MPs found that Pakistani and Bangladeshi women are particularly affected with 20, 5 % of them unemployed, 17, 7% for black women and only 6, 8% for white women. The report says also that many ethnic minority women have abandoned and deselected themselves from the jobs market because of discrimination.

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