The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $400,000 grant to Tulane University economist Patrick Button to study discrimination in access to mental health care for LGBTQ+ people and marginalized communities and whether the problem has been exacerbated by the pandemic.
The five-year funding award is part of the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program, the NSF’s most prestigious awards supporting early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
Button’s project will also explore discrimination against under-represented groups when applying for mortgages, develop new analytical tools for economics research using text data and establish a mentoring program for under-represented graduate and undergraduate students in economics.
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December 29, 2020
A woman waves a “Vote” sign as people gather outside of the U.S. Supreme Court following the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in Washington, U.S., September 18, 2020. REUTERS/Al Drago
On Jan. 1, the oldest millennials, born in 1981, will turn 40 and officially become eligible to sue employers under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967.
It may seem silly to fret about age discrimination among a generation long vilified as the embodiment of entitled youth. But research shows that for many millennial women, age discrimination is already a reality – one that will become critical during the recovery from the coronavirus crisis, as discrimination tends to peak during and after recessions.