| A | B |
| Affirmative action | Taking active measures to ensure equal opportunity in hiring and advancement |
| Hostile work environment | Supervisors and coworkers use embarrassment, humiliation, or fear to create a negative climate |
| Quid pro quo | Sexual demands are made are directly tied to a person keeping their job or receiving a promotion |
| Discrimination | Illegal treatment of a person or group based on prejudice |
| Sexual harassment | Unwelcome physical or verbal behavior directed at an employee because of their gender |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | The most important federal law that addresses discrimination |
| Diversity | A company's inclusion of people with a different culture, background, personality or other |
| Reverse discrimination | Practice of giving jobs to minorities at the expense of better-qualified majority |
| Boycott | Group agreement not to buy products or conduct business with companies to protest perceived injustice |