Sentences with phrase «existing inequalities»

What needs to happen to make sure that laws and policies do not reinforce existing inequality in our country and in our communities?

Virtual schooling could also exacerbate existing inequalities in education, since it is available only to families who can afford to have an adult at home to perform the duty of care normally assumed by teachers.

[1] In its conservative version, the alleged natural differences between the sexes justify existing inequalities and relations of power.

Building this in to policy would require needs based funding so that programs are capable of overcoming existing inequalities and are also cognisant of the future needs of particular groups.

There still exists inequality and oppression in the Church regarding women religious, propounded by the use of gender - specific language:

If football really wanted a level playing field then limiting the impact of the billionaire owner is the area that financial fair play should really have addressed rather than entrenching existing inequalities.

New York City's comptroller Scott Stringer is criticizing the planned LinkNYC free Wi - Fi program, arguing that it will actually accentuate existing inequality by delivering the fastest service to the wealthiest (read: most advertising lucrative) neighborhoods years ahead of other parts of the city, reports Matt Flegenheimer for the New York Times.

«We would encourage schools to ensure that science - related extra curricula activities, including school visits, are targeted to reach all students, not just those in the «top» sets, to avoid reproducing existing inequalities,» comments co-author Dr Jennifer DeWitt.

But critics say that standards - based reforms may simply exacerbate existing inequalities if sanctions are applied to low - performing students without giving them the resources and help they need to succeed.

School closures and displacement affect girls particularly negatively as existing inequalities are magnified.

· Assessing existing adaptation policies to ensure they are designed to avoid aggravating existing inequalities and to support the most vulnerable.

This has led to the obvious recrimination that having reaped the benefits of EU membership for decades, older voters are depriving younger generations of these opportunities and deepening existing inequalities.

While the potential for good knock - on effects from ABS may be limited, the potential for bad is more troubling: if access is improved only for the middle - or higher income brackets, it could exacerbate already existing inequalities in private law matters between people of different income levels — for example, landlords against tenants.

The following guideline of principles suggests that SRAs may still potentially breach human rights even if it provides a benefit that is over and above essential services, if it is provided in a manner that is discriminatory or makes addressing existing inequalities contingent upon the completion of mutual obligation principles.

This view thus tends to justify existing inequalities and relations of power.

To address existing inequalities in the pensions system, especially those faced by women, he said introducing a universal pension for those over the age of 75 would be «highly desirable», but admitted it would also be expensive.

the allocation of funding so that programs are capable of meeting identified need, particularly so that programs are able to overcome existing inequalities in access to services;

The proposed question about citizenship, finally, is liable to exacerbate an existing inequality in the administration of justice.

Those whose standard includes what is involved in «the century of the common man» and those whose standard extends only to the perpetuation and furtherance of existing inequalities and injustices constitute a case in point.

The fact that most naturalist arguments are used to justify existing inequalities is not sufficient to discard them all together.

Since the propertied had an interest in preserving and extending the existing inequalities of wealth, not just income, «the few are ever hankering & striving after Monerca and Aristocracy.»

Bonnano spoke about the need for a «post-ideological revolution» in which we rethink the existing inequalities in income and opportunity and return to the values we all learned when we were children: simple ideas such as sharing, respecting others, and fairness.

Public support for right - wing politicians when there is great inequality relies on finding scapegoats to blame, diverting the blame from the politicians and businesspeople who are maintaining the existing inequalities.

These assets can include household wealth or public goods such as health services, but they need to be developed in ways that don't exacerbate existing inequalities;

This digital insularity has all too often magnified society's existing inequalities — rather, it is in dialogue with other humans where divisions might be crossed, transcended and broken, in a new politics of care.

At the same time, the more promises made to us by the future of technology and networking, the more frightened we become of the existing inequalities and stagnations within our social coexistence as well as within our behavior towards nature.

Davis believes that existing inequalities will be reinforced by climate change — North America will benefit and the semi-tropical, poorer countries will suffer.

Due to existing inequalities, women and girls are disproportionately vulnerable to its impacts, from disease to natural disaster.

Climate change is going to exacerbate existing inequalities, and it is going to make it harder for people to claw their way out of poverty.

Lorena Aguilar, Global Senior Gender Advisor for the International Union for Conservation of Nature, put it clearly when she stated that «climate change exacerbates existing inequalities and slows progress towards gender equality -LSB-...] gender equality is a prerequisite for sustainable development and poverty reduction -LSB-...] these inequalities are magnified by climate change.»

Our research methods in this study included a respectful approach to women's lived experiences, informed by the recognition of existing inequalities, systemic discrimination, and gender bias in our society.

acknowledge the existing inequality of health status faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples;

To developing a comprehensive, long - term plan of action, that is targeted to need, evidence - based and capable of addressing the existing inequalities in health services, in order to achieve equality of health status and life expectancy between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non - Indigenous Australians by 2030