Employers near military bases are aware that wives generally accompany their servicemen husbands when they are transferred. When presented with nonservice-wife applicants and wives of servicemen, they hire the nonservice-wife applicants. This is an example of

a. gender discrimination.
b. statistical discrimination.
c. economic discrimination.
d. prejudicial discrimination.


b

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