Discrimination is a nasty word when you are looking for work. With the vast amount of potential employees a company can choose from you know they will weed out people that just "don't fit in" well with their corporation.
I have learned that if a job is listed for more than a month, it is not a case of the company not finding someone who is qualified but they are being extremely picky about what the person looks like, their gender or race. Unfortunately no matter how much regulation about discrimination there is, it will continue in some industries. For example a store will not likely hire someone who weighs 300 pounds if they will be selling equestrian apparel or other sports related equipment because the customer who comes in to buy the clothing will want to have a salesperson who is experienced in that sport and an overweight person is not likely to be actively involved in sports. So now you have weight discrimination even if the potential employee has lots of retail experience. That type of discrimination is hard to prove so it is best just to keep looking.
In California some industries do practice a good looks type of discrimination. It is not just based on age but looking pretty or handsome. This type of discrimination tends to hit women harder than men but it does hit the men too. Other states don't seem to have that type of discrimination going on but you might know of others.
Being a women has its own set of discrimination going on. I have been asked at several interviews in the past if I was planning on starting a family or how many children I had, those questions would not be asked if I was a man. What they were really asking is was I planning on getting pregnant soon. My personal life has nothing to do with my work life and they had no business asking me about it, but because I was a women, they asked.
I wish we could truly end all those hidden incidences of discrimination once an for all.
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