Despite the blatant obviousness that being fired for being too attractive clearly
disproportionately affects women rather than men, the Court seemed unmoved by arguments that equality does not necessarily mean identical treatment of men and women but may also necessitate proactive steps to protect vulnerable minorities.
Legaltech founders have surprisingly low diversity (as noted, only 5 % are black / Latinx), which is especially problematic given that the justice gap
disproportionately affects women, immigrants, and minorities.
«Because the justice gap
disproportionately affects women, immigrants, minorities,» Sonday feels strongly that «those groups should have influence into the tech solutions that we are building and have their voices heard because they are so close to these issues.»
He also makes the case that eviction
disproportionately affects women (and, worse, their children).
Did you know that millions of people around the world don't have access to clean drinking water, and that the problem
disproportionately affects women?
Conservatively, autoimmune disease affects more than 5 percent of the population in Western countries, and
disproportionately affects women [1].
In his address, Cuomo said tipping
disproportionately affects women and people of color, and that it subjects tipped workers to higher rates of sexual harassment than workers who aren't reliant on tips.
Cuomo says the tipped wage system inhibits workers who earn tips from coming forward with concerns about exploitation and harassment, and
it disproportionately affects women and people of color.
«Pay inequity
disproportionately affects women and people of color; we have to be deliberate and proactive if we truly hope to close the gap.»
Tribunal fees also exacerbate the issues with Osborne's programme of austerity, which
disproportionately affects women.
But when the snubs consistently and
disproportionately affect women and people of color over the old white male guard, one is forced to reckon with the fact that for all its chest thumping, Hollywood remains decades behind the times.
My answer, then and now, is yes — if that means I am specially concerned about a range of issues that
disproportionately affect women.
HM Inspector of Constabulary Wendy Williams reviewed the situation two years ago and found so called honour killings
disproportionately affect women from ethnic minorities.
The Public Advocate argued that the issues of poverty and income inequality
disproportionately affect women, immigrants and people of color.
He said Cuomo hasn't done enough on economic issues that
disproportionately affect women.
And since female scientists are married to professional men far more often than the reverse — according to a University of California, Berkeley, study, the figure for women was 61 % compared to just 27 % for men — those barriers
disproportionately affect women.
Declining tax revenues led to austerity measures that
disproportionately affected women working in the public sector and those who received public benefits.
This lack of flexibility tends to
disproportionately affect women — especially women planning to have families — which helps contribute to gender inequalities in research.
Water - related disasters have become the most economically and socially destructive of all natural hazards,
disproportionately affecting women, poor and disadvantaged people and fuelling poverty.
Just as Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
disproportionately affected women far more then men.
To critics, non-econ caps are both ineffective (since they will not lower malpractice premiums or the cost of health insurance coverage) and unfair (since they reduce damage awards to the most severely injured, and
disproportionately affect women, children, and the elderly).
BPD has long been regarded as an illness
disproportionately affecting women, but the latest research shows no difference in prevalence rates for men and women.
The loss of the services Planned Parenthood provides would
disproportionately affect women of color and women living in rural areas and other medically underserved communities.
Not exact matches
When a
woman has to create her own position and then maintain that position apart from the contribution (both financial and spiritual) of a larger institution, her target demographic can
disproportionately affect the shape of her ministry.
«
Women were disproportionately affected by the impacts of the earthquake - many lost their husbands and homes - and these workshops have been a lifeline for the women involved, allowing them to learn new skills and earn a living from them.&r
Women were
disproportionately affected by the impacts of the earthquake - many lost their husbands and homes - and these workshops have been a lifeline for the
women involved, allowing them to learn new skills and earn a living from them.&r
women involved, allowing them to learn new skills and earn a living from them.»
Global hunger has been the vanguard of human rights issues, but something easily overlooked is how
women are
disproportionately affected by global hunger issues.
While
women and girls are
disproportionately affected by media and societal pressure to conform to ridiculous, basically impossible beauty standards, our sons are not somehow sitting on the sidelines immune.
Underserved
women are also
disproportionately affected by cardiovascular disease (25).
A policy which
disproportionately affects ethnic minorities, LGBT people,
women, the disabled and those living in less affluent areas is not only an affront to basic principles of fairness and social justice but also exacerbates the inequality crisis which continues to worsen across the UK.
Our first conference highlighted government failure to address huge problems with the NHS and social care services,
affecting women disproportionately
The joint letter criticises the Labour leader for his «inadequate» response to «Rape threats, death threats, smashed cars and bricks through windows» which have «
disproportionately affected»
women.
There are two professions, nursing and education, that are dominated by
women, and in both professions you've seen this aggressive move toward... the testing model of work, so [that] also
affects women disproportionately.»
«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president of the American Psychological Society (APS) in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would
disproportionately affect people living in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities,
women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.»
Although EDs
affect people across different genders, ethnicities and ages,
women and girls are
disproportionately affected by eating problems.
Women are almost twice as likely to be
affected as men, and young individuals — both male and female — under 35 years of age are
disproportionately affected.
This debilitating condition
disproportionately affects post-menopausal
women who are more pre-disposed to the condition because of biology, genetics and hormones.
The disorder
affects roughly 1 percent of the world's population, and
disproportionately afflicts
women.
This condition
disproportionately affects seniors and
women, and leads to more than 1.5 million fractures annually.
«We're not ready for another emerging infectious disease that may
disproportionately affect pregnant
women or their fetuses or babies,» she says.
Women also stand to be
disproportionately affected by advances in gene editing.
Women and disabled people are likely to be
disproportionately affected.
Lupus
affects 1.5 million people in the United States and occurs in both men and
women, though 90 percent of those diagnosed are
women, with African - Americans
disproportionately impacted by the disease, according to the Lupus Foundation of America.
Their findings, published today in the journal Contraception, support growing evidence for the need to revisit a national policy that
disproportionately affects low - income and minority
women at high risk for unintended pregnancies.
Of 1.8 million new HIV infections worldwide in 2016, 43 percent occurred in eastern and southern Africa, with
women and girls
disproportionately affected.
To no one's surprise,
women are
disproportionately affected by the negative consequences of unpaid caregiving work.
Chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME, is a debilitating long - term condition that
affects women disproportionately and is too often written off as «all in the mind».
Women are affected disproportionately, partly due to fluctuating estrogen levels as attack triggers: about 28 million women in the US suffer migraines, and women make up 85 % of chronic migraine sufferers
Women are
affected disproportionately, partly due to fluctuating estrogen levels as attack triggers: about 28 million
women in the US suffer migraines, and women make up 85 % of chronic migraine sufferers
women in the US suffer migraines, and
women make up 85 % of chronic migraine sufferers
women make up 85 % of chronic migraine sufferers (1).
After learning more and more about how
women and girls are
disproportionately affected by dirty water, I knew I needed to create a campaign specifically around this subject.
Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former UN Commissioner for Human Rights, said, «Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century,» and, «People who are marginalized or poor,
women, and indigenous communities are being
disproportionately affected by climate impacts.»
And because climate change
affects ecosystems and agriculture, many of the negative effects will
disproportionately burden poor
women, who bear the responsibilities of food production and water collection in many parts of the world.