Sentences with phrase «goal of equality»

This article presents an overview of this evidence, including recommendations for achieving the goal of equality in care work.
Improving outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people includes moving from a goal of equality to equity; teaching about racism and unconscious bias, not just culture; and making explicit the deeper transformational work of institutional decolonisation.
To help support this goal of equality, the education system that emerged featured a high degree of central control.
Kopp shows some awareness of the absurdities of her own experiences — including a «fundraising schedule [that] shuttled me between two strikingly different economic spheres: our undersourced classrooms and the plush world of American philanthropy» — but she fails to grasp that this very gap is what makes her stated goal of equality unachievable.
Undeterred Davies pointed out that violence against women and girls could never be entirely eradicated, said he doesn't understand the difference between a goal and a target and demanded a list of concrete policies that the panel would like to see implemented that would help achieve the goal of equality.
In fact, a significant chorus of civil rights leaders claims that we have made no real progress, that racism is as pervasive and the goal of equality as remote as ever.
The Bolsheviks in the early phases of the Russian Revolution offer another example, and China during the Cultural Revolution also pursued the goal of equality quite intensely.
Again, people in these forums, painting with such broad brush strokes, do not hint at the common goal of equality.

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More data presumably would help achieve the goal of wage equality.
«Equal pay is essential to the goal of gender equality,» Sandberg says in a news release about the campaign.
(September 20, 2016) At the 12th and final Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, 30 partners joined No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, an initiative of the Clinton Foundation, Vital Voices Global Partnership, and WEConnect International to announce a new series of commitments that address significant gender gaps and advance the gender equality targets of the United Nations» Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Since eliminating the ministry of women's equality, at least three different ministries have picked up and dropped responsibility for these goals.
Now, with this essential funding commitment from the Province, We for She 2018 will continue to bring together women and B.C. students for a fifth annual one - day forum, with the ultimate goal of making gender equality in leadership a priority,» said Iain Black, CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.
That most Americans have not felt it as tyranny stems from the fact that most of us agree with the goals of racial equality.
It would be a profound desecration of their memory were we to preach despair to our children when we are in fact so much closer than were our fathers to the cherished goal of full equality.
The goal is to show how scripture, tradition, reason, and experience all support a posture of equality toward women, one that favorsmutuality rather than hierarchy, in the home, Church, and society.
If equality of the sexes is the goal, then acceptance of females as full participants in war does follow.
The goal is to show how scripture, tradition, reason, and experience all support a posture of equality toward women, one that favors mutuality rather than hierarchy, in the home, Church, and society.
From the beginning of what we may call the «gender revolution» in the 1970s to now, when the goals of a minority of western agents of change are about to take on a more visible, global and powerfully financed institutional form, the normative and operational activities of the gender equality process has been led by «experts», NGOs, UN Secretariat bureaucrats, panels - not by the man - on - the - street or his legitimate representative.
In the late 1990s, «gender equality» was transformed into a transversal priority of international cooperation, leading into the Millennium Development Goals forged by the UN Secretariat in 2001.
But he does correctly show that the positive goals of contemporary liberals - in particular autonomy, distributive justice, and equality - are guaranteed to exacerbate the evils it is the negative task of liberalism to avoid.
In those places, particularly universities, where affirmative action has been most avidly embraced, the goal of racial equality and harmony is farther away than ever; and the inevitable response to this problem is an even more comprehensive and ambitious departure from the standard of color - blind policies.
The goal of giving is not a vow of poverty but a vow of generosity for the sake of equality, sufficiency and justice.
My goal with that series is to reconstruct much of what I've deconstructed in the past, to celebrate equality rather than debate complementarianism.
Amory Lovins has argued in detail that an environmentally desirable energy policy will also employ more persons in more desirable ways and produce as much usable power as we need.35 If we redefine the goal of efficiency as the enhancement of human experience, we are likely to find that most of the oppositions identified by Okun between equality and efficiency will disappear.
It requires addressing interlocked issues encompassing many of the Global Goals — including water, climate change and land degradation, but also access to finance, gender equality and even literacy, which all affect farmers» ability to produce good quality crops.
«Bringing together the top women and men in the industry to talk best practices and align goals for gender diversity and equality is something we have done in the United States and will continue to do so, but it is equally as important to extend this dialogue to our colleagues in Europe,» said Deborah Brenner, Founder & CEO, Women of the Vine & Spirits.
Highlights of these 2025 goals include McCormick's commitments to: — Source 100 percent of branded iconic ingredients sustainably; — Improve the livelihoods of 90 percent of smallholder farmers who grow McCormick's iconic herbs and spices; — Champion equality for women and people of color in leadership, and empower women farmers across the company's supply chain; and — Reduce the company's environmental impact by lowering its carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.
The goal was lessons on discipline, work ethic and equality: A working - class man whose ancestors had come to America from Germany in the 18th century as indentured servants had no intention of passing along the ways of racial segregation that marked that place in time.
Numerical equality on edge of Chievo's 18 - yard box facilitated the clever interplay between Salah and Dzeko culminating in a two - goal advantage for the away side:
Overall, the UK comes 12th out of 22 countries in the FIFI, which brings together a basket of measures to compare countries» progress towards the goal of gender equality; it has dropped three places since 2010.
Grantly Dick - Read, the father of the natural childbirth philosophy, was a eugenicist who was quite honest about his goal of convincing women of the «better classes» to have more children and give up those pesky demands for political and economic equality.
Davis is also an official partner of UN Women, working toward their goal of promoting gender equality and empowering women worldwide.
Like environmental and gender equality lobby groups, MSF's ethic of refusal has one goal whichever government is implicated, that of influencing policy according to its philosophical beliefs.
The IWD otherwise known as the United Nations (UN) Day for Women's Rights and International Peace has since gained international recognition and celebrated world wide in different forms and even gained the status of a holiday in some countries such as Ukraine The day has also been marked under various themes encompassing peace and security, human rights, gender based violence, conflicts and hunger, education, gender equality, empowerment and affirmative actions, inclusion of woman in decision making, the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and many more.
Everyone having the same weight is a naive goal, «one person, one vote» is more a system of minimizing the potential for abuse than one of idealistic equality.
Mr. Speaker, empowering women and achieving gender equality is fundamental to the realization of the SDG goals.
They also discuss how the roles of men, as active agents, and women, as passive victims, in war have been buttressed by current understandings of the use of rape in conflict zones and how this gendered understanding of conflict roles has negative consequences for the movement towards gender equality and the goal of eradicating rape in war.
Goal five of the Sustainable Development Goals seeks to «achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls» by 2030.
Thatcher's «Let our children grow tall» speech attacked the representation of equality as a single issue goal, the means being a «programme of impoverishment [of the more well off] through the medium of the state».
Today, many people wrongly associate communism with vague leftist or even liberal goals, such as equality, non-discrimination and elimination of racism.
READ MORE: Ban harmful cultural practices that undermine women's rights — WiLDAF The United Nation (UN) said, the idea behind this year's theme, «is to consider how to accelerate the 2030 Agenda, building momentum for the effective implementation of the new Sustainable Development Goals, especially goal number 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls; and number 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning».
Then in 2011 the Compass membership voted to take the huge cultural and political step of changing our constitution to open up membership beyond just Labour to welcome in party members from the Greens, Liberal Democrats, SNP, Plaid Cymru and anyone who supported our good society goals of much greater equality, sustainability, democracy and pluralism.
When Gov. Cuomo on Wednesday discussed his goal of marriage equality, the 67 - year - old Diaz Sr. ripped him for «wasting valuable time... with a pure agenda issue like homosexual marriage.»
The primary goal of the new party is supposedly the passage of Cuomo's 10 - point women's equality platform.
The Human Rights Campaign has established a new group whose goal is to defeat state legislators who opposed marriage equality, and they've hired Brian Ellner, who was shut out of the head position at the Empire State Pride Agenda just recently, t... Read
We know racial justice is a worker issue, that racial equality is a union goal: we can not win at work when race divides us, nor does fairness truly exist when some of us are profiled at home, targeted on the streets, and treated unequally in the courts.
The Human Rights Campaign has established a new group whose goal is to defeat state legislators who opposed marriage equality, and they've hired Brian Ellner, who was shut out of the head position at the Empire State Pride Agenda just recently, to head it, the NYT reports:
The UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals are aimed at achieving equality, securing global peace and ending extreme poverty — an ambitious agenda that will require a wide - range of conditions to be met.
In its appropriation directions for higher education institutions for the 2016 fiscal year, the government states that all higher education institutions must produce a plan showing how they intend to move their work on Gender Mainstreaming forward, so as to contribute towards achieving the goals of gender equality policy.
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