A concentration on seemingly abstract ideas like 'masculinity' and 'femininity'may seem esoteric when compared to issues of whether girls are actively discriminated against in education.

During the Jim Crow era, AAA actively discriminated against African Americans, who could not join the association.

This failure was attributed to defects of language or of home background rather than to an educational system that only valued one kind of language and actively discriminated against working-class culture.

Similarly, the Town Clerk of Hereford, in a letter to the Home Office, claimed that the bill actively discriminated against men by ignoring the innate immorality of many women and girls.

Not participating in the praxe also warrants consequences to the freshman in question, such as not being able to participate in praxe-related traditions and activities and being actively discriminated from academic life, as freshmen are encouraged to set aside and discriminate those who are anti-praxe.

While other unions actively discriminated against African Americans and other minorities or ignored the issue of race, Gold encouraged a bottom-up attack on racism.

Even though African Americans have long claimed an American identity, during most of United States history they were not accepted as full citizens and were actively discriminated against.

Prince Ahmad openly declared that the Saudi government had neglected the region and had actively discriminated against its Shi'ite population.

The government must have actively discriminated in its award of contracts or employment or have been a passive participant in a system of racial exclusion practiced by elements of a local industry.