Spread AWARENESS
In a personal interview conducted with a back office lead (manager/hires people) in a retail store in Mountain View, I asked her what Bay Areans can do about discrimination in employment. She answered the following:
"They can respect each other, but they can also bring awareness to the situation. So let's say you are trying to get hired at a certain place and you know for a fact that it was discrimination, there are government agencies or places where you give them your case, they look at it and they will review it. If they choose to go along with your case, most likely they will audit the store, and it's not like a 1,2,3 process, it's a two year process. They go through all of your employment records from your current employees to the people you said, "No, I will not hire you." That's why it's really important for stores to keep in line with employee practices. Every year they do audits, majority of the time, with someone from their own store, who will come in and do it for them, and they will let them know like, "Hey, if this store was chosen to get audited you would fail, because of so, so and so." Kind of like that case with Abercrombie & Fitch, I think there was girl who opened up a case, but she was already working there. So this is for someone who is already working. You can also reach out to a government agency or bureau who will open up a case most likey, and in her case, she won because they didn't let her wear that hijab, or whatever, while she was on the job, and that's a religous thing, or practice. And they told her she can't wear that, or we're going to fire you. So she said ok, she kept it on, and she got the boot.
From this quote, she showed that awareness is a vital piece of employment/housing discrimination. It's strongly suggested to be aware of your rights as an employee or home renter so once you encounter a discriminating act at work or when applying for housing, you will be able to identify whether you've been discriminated against and know what to do next.
Since employment/housing discrimination is a tricky situation to identify every time it happens, there is that unfortunate reality that we can't solve the problem down to the very core. Discrimination can be subtly passed, or often misinterpreted. But if we become aware of the problem and its effects, we can definitely target and strip away the obvious and most affecting cases of employment and housing discrimination.