Therefore, discrimination persists since racial and gender characteristics shape who gets the higher paying jobs, both within and between occupations.

The 13th Amendment put an end to legalized slavery, but discrimination persisted.

Societal abuses and discrimination based on religious belief and practice persisted.

Although studies indicate that some discrimination in mortgage lending persists, many large lenders are courting black business.

The government acknowledged that some discrimination persists against Afro-Peruvians, who make up 5-10% of the population of the country.

Many people in the art world agreed that discrimination against artists who are women, whether overt or subtle, persisted despite some improvement in recent years.

Nevertheless, discrimination persisted in areas like employment and housing.

By what sense of social justice can such discrimination persist?

Stigmatisation of and discrimination against those who suffer from mental ill health still persists.

Much discrimination also still persists within Roma communities themselves, and the strategy urgently needs to seek to remedy this, rather than simply not hiding it.