California Considers Banning Caste Discrimination

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CALIFORNIA- After Seattle, California may also ban caste-based discrimination. Democratic Senator Aisha Wahab, on Wednesday introduced a bill make caste discrimination illegal in the state’s senate. The bill proposes to add caste as a protected category in California’s anti-discrimination laws alongside gender, race and disability.

Democratic senator Josh Becker, has supported the bill saying he is “supportive of anything to turn the tide.” The workers’ union at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, also issued a statement supporting Wahab’s bill. A newly public group called Tech Workers for Caste Equity, which describes itself as an interfaith, multiracial, inter-caste collective dedicated to class equity has also come forward to support the bill.