Professional law firm staff report there's a two-tiered system within firms that minimizes their role and contributions. "I quickly learned about a caste system," one former staff member said, "an ...

Over the last 40 years, as millions of Indians have immigrated to the U.S., many for tech jobs, they’ve brought their caste system with them. The ancient Indian caste system has four tiers with ...

A lawsuit filed in California alleges a new type of workplace discrimination based on caste. Indians in Silicon Valley say this ancient social hierarchy has followed them to the U.S..

ABA eyes more job protection for some law school faculty to undercut 'caste system' By Karen Sloan. January 2, 2024 7:10 PM UTC ... Faculty tiers have long been a source of controversy in ...

Seattle became the first US city to ban caste discrimination in February. The caste system in India dates back over 3,000 years and divides Hindu society into rigid hierarchical groups.

Debate over the caste system's hierarchy is contentious in India and abroad, with the issue intertwined with religion. Some people say discrimination is now rare.

The national picture is less bleak for the BJP, according to a post-election survey by Lokniti-CSDS, a pollster.The party won 53% of upper-caste votes, the same as in 2019. Among middle-to-lower ...

The caste system is a tiered socioeconomic system that consigns people to a particular group, or caste. In Hinduism, this system is part of its religious worldview.

Yashica Dutt, author of “Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System,” reads an excerpt to an audience at Northwestern University in Evanston on May 1.