¶ … Discrimination and Harassment Discrimination is an act of prejudice where unfairness towards a person or group of persons is demonstrated. It is an act of unreasonably treating a person less fairly as compared to how others are treated. Discrimination can manifest itself in many instances in our lives, either within the social environment, workplace, school, and many others. In reference and respect to every person's human rights, discrimination is prohibited under human rights and constitutional laws. According to an online source, this especially includes discrimination based on the following attributes.

race, colour, sex, age, trade union activity, religion, criminal record, political opinion, marital status, impairment (including HIV status), disability (including physical and intellectual), medical record, national extraction, nationality, social origin, sexual orientation, gender identity inc. transexuality

Harassment, on the other hand, is a form of abusing or injuring a person or group of persons, either physically, mentally, or emotionally. As with discrimination, it can also manifest in many instances of our lives. Harassment can cause trauma to a victim because it can physically or mentally affect an individual.

Its main intention is to give biased treatment between people. A result of harm is not definite to occur in discrimination and depends only on situation. Harassment on the other hand is an unfavorable action that causes direct harm to victims. Harassment is an intentional way of causing harm to others. The act of harassment is usually not hidden or disguised which is opposed to discrimination in which the major reason can be concealed with things that will not make the act unfavorable to the receiver.
Workplace Discrimination

A case of discrimination has been an issue in Wal-Mart wherein bias treatment between male and female workers was demonstrated by Wal-Mart. Last year, a gender discrimination lawsuit was filed against the company and it was considered as the largest case of discrimination against a large company.

From an interview conducted by Paul Solman with the female employees of Wal-Mart, it was revealed that the company favors male employees more than the female employees. This is in terms of many job aspects that include…