stereotype tax

noun

A disadvantage that affects a person due to a stereotype about them held and acted upon by others.

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Meanings

nounstereotype tax (plural stereotype taxes)

plural stereotype taxes

  1. human sciencesA disadvantage that affects a person due to a stereotype about them held and acted upon by others.

    Such taxes may result from stereotyping, conditioning, or imposed social roles. Merchants' discrimination on the basis of skin colour is a stereotype tax on Black Nova Scotians.

    2002, Elena Hannah, Swani Vethamany-Globus, Linda Paul, Women in the Canadian Academic Tundra: Challenging the Chill
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