stereotype tax

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stereotype tax (plural stereotype taxes)

  1. (sociology) A disadvantage that affects a person due to a stereotype about them held and acted upon by others.
    • 2002, Elena Hannah, Swani Vethamany-Globus, Linda Paul, Women in the Canadian Academic Tundra: Challenging the Chill:
      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.
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