Vol. 1, Issue 1, Part F (2014)

The term ‘discrimination’ is used by people in their day to day conversation conveniently, but is understood by a few only. Generally, discrimination is interchangeably used along with the terms- stereotypes, prejudice, and segregation, which are closely related to each other, however, are not synonyms for discrimination. Therefore, the present paper attempts to explore the meaning, types and causes of discrimination.