Pupil outcome: I can describe algorithmic bias and suggest ways to make algorithms fairer. Key learning points: - Algorithmic bias is when an algorithm produces unfair or discriminatory outcomes that favour some groups over others. -...

Disparate Treatment

Disparate Impact in Employment Discrimination

Discrimination by Disparate Impact Examples

Employers often find themselves the subject of discrimination actions by employees claims that the employer has acted in an illegally discriminatory manner in how they treated the employee. There are, however, numerous defenses available...

Tanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches Anti-Discrimination Law, Comparative Employment Discrimination, Critical Race Theory, The Science of Implicit Bias...

Disparate Impact in Employment Discrimination

Disparate Treatment

Discrimination by Disparate Impact Examples

Employers often find themselves the subject of discrimination actions by employees claims that the employer has acted in an illegally discriminatory manner in how they treated the employee. There are, however, numerous defenses available...

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