Currently, the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) pays Olympic athletes $25,000 for each gold medal, $15,000 for a silver medal, and $10,000 for a bronze medal. The USOC pays disabled athletes only ten percent of what the Olympic athletes are paid. Paralympic athletes are angry at being treated unfairly. What kind of inequity are the Paralympic athletes experiencing

Disability Discrimination is a form of inequity or unfairness that individuals aer forced to witness, endure or suffer as a result of their association with a disabled person, a perceived disability or an actual disability. This discrimination arise in different situations and they are both physical and mental.

Disability discrimination is often witnessed in employment in issues including; recruitments, promotions, trainings, lay-ffs, leaves, benefits and payments.

In this particular question, disability discrimination is a kind of inequity obvious in the fact that Paralympic athletes are only paid 10 percent of what the Olympic athletes receive, despite the fact that they are engaged in similar physical activities. The fact that is the same U.S Olympic Committe (USOC) that pays both set of athletes makes it a form of employment inequity in form of disability discrimination.