Disparate treatment may result from unintentional actions, such as setting certain hiring qualifications that may result in one race, religion, or sex, for example, being hired in disproportionately higher numbers than others.

Disparate treatment involves intentional discrimination because of a person’s protected characteristic. A hiring qualification that unintentionally affects one group more than others is generally an example of disparate impact, not disparate treatment. So the statement is false.

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