Sentences with phrase «against inequality in»

Firms as big as the tech giant should be spearheading the fight against inequality in the workplace and they should have a solid sense of their company values.

Professor Karikari said this at a two - day capacity building workshop for the media and civic society Organisations in Ho on the fight against inequality in Ghana...

The protests is a reminder of the deep scars left over from the months - long encampment by St Paul's, when thousands of Occupy demonstrators protested against inequality in an improvised reaction to the financial crisis.

«What I've found fascinating in the last week of this process has been the numbers of people — probably not in the Labour party, may not even be Labour voters — who have written to me to say thanks very much for speaking up against austerity and for speaking up against inequality in society,» he says.

Even if your company has a clear policy against inequality in promotions and pay, why does it still happen?

Not exact matches

In theory, Occupy was a protest against economic inequality, a reaction not just to the gap between «the 1 %» and «the 99 %,» but to the widening of that gap in the years following the financial crisis of 2008 and 200In theory, Occupy was a protest against economic inequality, a reaction not just to the gap between «the 1 %» and «the 99 %,» but to the widening of that gap in the years following the financial crisis of 2008 and 200in the years following the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.

Public companies for the first time this year must disclose how much more they pay their chief executive than their median employee, a rule born in the wake of the financial crisis and amid a social backlash against rising income inequality.

If we add in reductions of inequality, doing things like guaranteeing everyone in society (like the young) some base level of health insurance — am against single - payer FTR — along with other basic things, we can easily hit an economy of ~ $ 50 trillion.

Not only are these corporate forms a powerful tool in the fight against inequality, but there is evidence that they provide the incentives for greater effort, more cooperation, more innovation and more sharing — all of which contribute to improvements in workplace performance and company productivity.

Greater saving has been driven by increases in inequality and in the share of income going to the wealthy, increases in uncertainty about the length of retirement and the availability of benefits, reductions in the ability to borrow (especially against housing), and a greater accumulation of assets by foreign central banks and sovereign wealth funds.

It is not a huge tome, as one might expect from such a broad topic, weighing in at just 265 pages of text (including lots of figures mapping inequality against some health and social -LSB-...]

All women are in some way affected by inequality, and Christians have much to contribute to the fight against it.

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- Redistributive, to militate against growing inequalities in wealth and power within and between nations.

From Graeme Mark: Feminists have been good at pointing out male - leaning inequalities that run as deep in our consciousness as our language (one man, one vote etc.) Do you think there are any female - leaning inequalities where men are discriminated against?

When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who made birth control happen, who got women into positions of power in the government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.

Judging by the #Justice4Janet hashtag from October, people are looking for true fairness and reconciliation between the two, in addition to bucking against what appears to be an example of racial and gender inequalities on display as a microcosm.

Just as there are possible justifications for inequality (and for the use of violence in its defense), so there are also possible justifications for resort to violence against existing structures of power» (PPT 27f.)

Collected for the most part by industrialized countries, where the principal financial markets are located, this money could be used to help struggle against inequalities, to promote education and public health in poor countries, and for food security and sustainable development.

The issue comes to light in their public statements about inequality and hate speech against a specific group of people, as well as the millions of dollars in donations to actively block equal rights to those people.

Just weeks after Jennifer Lawrence made headlines for speaking out against the gender pay gap in Hollywood, a new study confirms that Hollywood has a big problem when it comes to gender inequality.

Yet there is little doubt that race equality is practiced further under Communism than is general in the democracies of the West, and it is certain that our racial inequalities, though exaggerated, are a chief weapon in the psychological war against us.

I think Jesus would have been against everything the GOP stands for from taking from the poor and giving to the rich, to denying millions health care, and thinking we live in a wonderful country when inequality is so out of control that we have millions unemployed, homeless, or living in poverty.

This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a subject to being an object to which others have a right; and sexual identity, which rather than being a natural given would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted into the elimination of differences.

This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a subject to being an object to which others have a right; and sexual identity as a natural given, which would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted into the elimination of differences.

The massive amount of resources consumed unnecessarily across the entire production cycle and the associated inequality and injustice in view of food sovereignty on an inter - and intra-generational scale are the decisive reasons for me to fight against food waste.

The ex-president also warned against geographical inequalities, as according to him, those excluded from resources and left in poverty would be easy targets for recruitment into various forms of criminality.

«Unions are a powerful weapon in the fight against inequality, wage stagnation and a system that doesn't represent the needs of a large majority of American workers.»

«Now, more than ever, working people need bold leaders in New York City who will stand up against the forces of inequality and division,» the group said in a statement.

Wednesday, 65 progressive advocacy groups launched a campaign against income inequality in response to the executive budget announcement.

In January 2016, McGovern resigned from Labour's policy review on child poverty and combating inequality, as a protest against Progress being described by shadow Chancellor John McDonnell as having «a hard right agenda».

Jesus «Chuy» Garcia has made income inequality a central platform in his campaign against incumbent Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a runoff election April 7.

«We're going to raise the minimum wage for working families, we're going to pass the Women's Equality Act, because discrimination and inequality against women stops in New York State, «Cuomo shouted, to cheers.

«The mayor, since the beginning of his career, has been a steadfast champion in the fight against inequality, and recently the governor has been using his executive power and his pulpit to win real victories,» Working Families Party New York State Director Bill Lipton told the Observer.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, headed to Iowa for a four - day trip to stump for Hillary Clinton ahead of Monday's caucus, hopes he can convince progressive Democrats in the state still on the fence about Clinton that she's long been at the leading edge of the fight against income inequality and knows how Washington works better than her primary challenger, Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The third description called her a «law professor and progressive,» who would «work to reverse the growing inequality of wealth and political power in New York» and «advocate against the power that big corporations have over our economy and politics and fight to give family businesses and working New Yorkers a fair shot.»

«We're going to raise the minimum wage for working families, we're going to pass the Women's Equality Act, because discrimination and inequality against women stops in New York State, «Cuomo said.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told Britain's Labour Party that the fight against inequality he has championed in the city is «the issue of our time throughout the globe.»

As federal Labor MP Andrew Leigh notes in his book on equality, unions in Australia remain fundamental in the struggle against growing economic inequality.

Highlighting the stories of area residents who have been directly impacted by past budget cuts, the NYInequality coalition is seeking to persuade local lawmakers to fight back against giving the wealthiest another tax windfall, especially since New York ranks first in the nation for income inequality.

I think what he needs to do is to embrace that model of a market - based economy where we are supporting business success, but where we also want to see a socially inclusive society with principles of social justice where we're creating opportunities for people and leaning against inequalities of society in everything we do.

I think what he needs to do is to embrace that model of a market - based economy where we are supporting business success, but where we also want to see a socially - inclusive society with principles of social justice where we're creating opportunities for people and leaning against inequalities of society in everything we do.

New York should be a leader in the fight against inequality and for an economy that works for all of us.»

Standing up against the grotesque levels of inequality in Britain.»

President Obama says he's declared war on inequality in the US — he should include a drive against the tropical diseases afflicting the nation's poor

Today's pure black look is extra special because I've partnered with eBay to support a cause I genuinely care about: TIME»S UP, an organization taking action against sexual harassment and inequality in the workplace.

«Evidence tells us that we need to challenge rigid gender stereotypes and gender inequality to prevent violence against women», wrote Rosie Batty, a survivor of domestic violence and 2015 Australian of the Year from Neveralone.com.au in an email for the Australian Father's Day 6 September 2015.

Having a constant ally in the fight against prejudice and racial inequality is not only the pillar of support you find in every great relationship, but also proof that there's no inherent bias, just injustice.

She was one of many stars to don black to show solidarity with the Time's Up movement, which raises awareness of sexual assault, harassment and inequality in the workplace and helps sexual assault survivors take legal action against their abusers.

He called for greater transparency in Fifa, railed against the European Commission and the inequality in the world game.