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What term describes a physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities?
Disability
What word describes the ideas or convictions that people accept as true, often influencing their actions and values?
Beliefs
What do we call a person who works for another person or an organization in exchange for payment?
Employee
What word refers to the location or environment where people perform their jobs?
Workplace
What do we call a widely held but oversimplified and generalized idea about a particular group of people?
Stereotype
What is the term for advancing to a higher position or rank within a job or organization?
Promotion
What do we call the unfair treatment of individuals based on characteristics such as race, gender, or religion?
Discrimination
➤ What do we call the results or effects that follow an action or decision?
Consequences
What word refers to an unfair preference or prejudice for or against something or someone?
Bias
What term refers to a belief or hope about how someone should behave or about what is likely to happen in the future?
Expectation
What term describes the person or organization that hires and pays workers to perform specific tasks?
Employer
What term refers to a person’s regular job or profession?
Occupation
➤ What word refers to the social and cultural roles, behaviors, and attributes that a society considers appropriate for men and women?
Gender
What adjective describes an action that has the opposite effect of what was intended, making a situation worse instead of better?
Counterproductive
What adjective describes the feeling of being unhappy or displeased with the quality of something or with one’s situation?
Dissatisfied
What term refers to a group of people who share a common cultural background, language, colour of skin, or ancestry?
Ethnicity
What term refers to a person’s way of thinking or feeling about something, often reflected in their behaviour?
Attitude
What term refers to a person’s enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction toward others, such as heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality?
Sexual orientation
What do we call the facts, information, or signs that help prove whether something is true or false?
Evidence
What word means the ability or skill needed to do something successfully?
Capability
What word means the strong effect or influence that something has on a person, situation, or environment?
Impact
What is the opinion that people in general have about someone or something, or how much respect or admiration someone or something receives, based on past behaviour or character?
Reputation
What policy aims to increase opportunities for historically underrepresented groups through proactive hiring or admissions practices?
Affirmative action
What term refers to a fixed number or limited amount of something that is officially allowed or required?
Quota
What word describes a feeling of anger or bitterness due to unfair treatment?
Resentment