Surface-level diversity
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Surface-level diversity (hereinafter, the Diversity) is differences in easily perceived characteristics, such as gender, race, ethnicity, age, or disability, that do not necessarily reflect the ways people think or feel, but may activate or trigger certain stereotypes.
Related concepts
- Biographical characteristic. A quantifiable personal characteristic such as age, gender, income, education, socioeconomic status, family size, marital status, race, and length of tenure that are objective and easily obtained from personnel records. These characteristics are indicators of surface-level diversity.
- Race. The biological heritage (including skin color and associated traits) that people use to identify themselves.
