home/glossary/Disparate Treatment

Disparate Treatment

nounverified·updated Aug 28, 2026

Intentional discrimination, including (i) decisions explicitly based on protected characteristics; and (ii) intentional discrimination via proxy variables (e.g literacy tests for voting eligibility).

MWEDoes mitigating ML’s impact disparity require treatment disparity?

Classifications

Entity Type

Finding75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
?unassignedlast reviewed

Sensitivity

Regulated80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
?unassignedlast reviewed

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Disparate Treatments
possessive
Disparate Treatment's
pluralpossessive
Disparate Treatments'