Sentences with phrase «inequities at»

A recurring theme in our conversations was that women need to speak up and point out inequities at work but keep the conversation positive.

Inequities at the school and district level must be called out and closed, but is this result going to drive that to happen?

The settlement, aimed at addressing inequities at low - performing schools, will provide a huge boost in resources to 37 schools that have long struggled with high teacher turnover, student drop - out rates and low student achievement.

Parent donations only further the current funding inequities at the district and school levels.

Additional resources to support class size reduction acknowledge the deep - seated inequities at the core of Australian schooling, but would not be enough.

Like «American Honey» (2016), from another key British filmmaker, Andrea Arnold, «Lean on Pete» uses its young protagonist as a kind of search engine, looking for answers to his own fate and to the inequities at the heart of our nation.

«If you look at the last 50 years, or all of history, of state behaviors and rampant inequity at the state level in U.S. Supreme Court cases, it's reasonable to think you'd see divestment from underserved communities, in favor of either saving money or to redirecting funds to places with more political clout and wealth,» Marchitello said.

By considering the issue of racial inequity at both microlevels and macrolevels, Milner's insights are likely to be appealing to community advocates and educational practitioners alike.

Not exact matches

At the very least, it's an innovative way to think about compensation, and one possible path toward eliminating pay inequity and discrimination.

Perhaps aware of the inequities presented by an ever - increasing surplus at CMHC, the Department of Finance has begun a review of the industry.

Therefore, whether current households suffer from inter-generational inequity depends on whether one believes that the average size of houses is a free individual choice or, at least to some extent, is being imposed by the construction industry and society more generally.

The union took aim at «a hyper - masculine industrial camp culture, which can result in increased risk of sexual harassment, assault, increased levels of violence against women in sex work and hitchhiking and increased levels of child care and gender inequity.»

«Despite this inequity and the challenges it presents, minority businesses thrive at similar levels and even grow more quickly, in some cases, than non-minority firms,» said Rice.

It seems every major company around the globe — and many not so major companies — are taking notice of the inequities of their female employee rosters at all levels.

For a few children the experience can generate resentment at social inequities.

In far too many places of the world, gender inequity keeps girls uneducated, improperly fed or wedded and parenting at young ages.

The more that I looked at the death penalty the more I saw Pandora's box: It opens up a whole lot of other important issues like race and economic inequity and how the death penalty is applied — even things like the role of government.

Just at the moment when inequities might be confronted, the ideology of individualism blocks the view.

It means looking at policies and structures that cause violence and inequity and fighting to remedy them.

Nonetheless, the LPGA's longtime practice of skimming 6 1/2 % of the prize money produces at least one embarrassing inequity every year: The players in the mixed - team JC Penney Classic are paid differently.

(While I'm at it, I'll through out a plug for the excellent Whitehall studies that are THE go - to for discussing health inequalities and inequities.)

This awards seeks to recognize individuals in the babywearing community who have furthered diversity and inclusivity through programs or actions which systematically reduce inequities in the their local communities or the babywearing community at large.

She currently teaches at Evergreen State College, and her particular interests are health equity, global health issues, and the health of women and children, with a focus on the elimination of maternal infant health inequities in the US.

The inequity experienced by pregnant women living in rural and remote locations forced to travel long distances to access maternity care, is raised as a failure of government to provide essential services to these communities [31 — 33] placing lives at risk.

The wealth stratification of diaper affordability piles another struggle on families already at risk for poor health, and contributes to the inequity that segregates health in our country.

Under current law, however, students at proprietary colleges aren't eligible for Enhanced Tuition Awards, a clear inequity that needs to be corrected,» Pichardo said.

Issues surrounding housing inequities in Buffalo were brought to light during a panel discussion at the WNED WBFO Studios Wednesday night, as part of WBFO's Racial Equity Project.

Mr Clegg faced embarrassment yesterday when delegates at the party's conference in Liverpool approved a motion rejecting free schools because they would lead to «increasing social divisiveness and inequity».

Back in the winter of 2014, when de Blasio was pushing for a major expansion of pre-kindergarten and after - school programs, he absorbed months of jabs from Cuomo — who at one point tried to outflank de Blasio on the left by saying the mayor's proposal could create «more inequity and inequality.»

Her campaign says she will speak at noon Monday at a press conference on school funding inequities before meeting with parents of school children from around the state.

That's one of the inequities we're looking at and we're going to be starting that now.»

But local communities across this country are standing up to the great supermarkets, and finding themselves at the losing end of a battle which is run according to supermarket principles: namely, a staggering inequity of means.

Similarly, to impose a crude cap on potential incomes of high earners without regard for those at the bottom may not necessarily address the actual inequity between the two.

At 10:30 a.m., Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Charles Rangel and Gregory Meeks, with Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G. K. Butterfield, hold a public forum on the impact of economic challenges and persistent inequities facing African Americans across the country, Harlem Hospital Center, 506 Malcolm X Blvd., Manhattan.

Occupy protesters briefly disrupted a state budget hearing at the State Capitol Monday, saying they were angered by inequities in the tax system.

It is one of many factors that contribute to unacceptably high rates of poverty of female - headed households and an issue at the core of YWCA work throughout the state, particularly in Upstate NY where gender pay inequity is greatest.

Though many subsequent reports may have failed to mention AQE by name, and the headlines focused heavily on Nixon's choice words for the governor, the message of education funding inequity was at part of the conversation and is a pillar of Nixon's campaign.

«The subsidy we complain about lies at the heart of inequities in various school buildings that fuel the opposition to co-location.

The inequities are the focus of a panel discussion Friday being hosted by the New York State School Boards Association, which is holding its annual meeting at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.

«Historically, we have looked at funding as a way to address the inequities,» said Shaun Nelms, a Rochester - area superintendent who will participate in Friday's panel.

The Office's goals are to enhance the economic, civic, and social integration of immigrant New Yorkers; facilitate access to justice for immigrant New Yorkers; and advocate for continued immigration reforms at all levels of government in order to eliminate inequities that impact New York's immigrant communities.

Farmer argues that «careful study reveals that state power has been responsible for most human rights violations and that most violations are embedded in «structural violence» — social and economic inequities that determine who will be at risk for assaults and who will be shielded.

The University of Toronto's Status of Women Office was established in 1984 in order to identify and remove barriers and inequities experienced by all women students, staff, and faculty at all three University of Toronto campuses (St. George, Scarborough, and Mississauga).

A study by a doctoral student in epidemiology at the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis showed that vehicle inequities have a significant impact on survivability in head - on collisions.

«Women and men in STEM often at odds over workplace equity: Perceived inequities are especially common among women in science, technology, engineering and math jobs who work mostly with men.»

In fact, while Massachusetts is known for its ambitious environmental policies, Daniel Faber, an environmental justice researcher at Northeastern University and director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative, has found that the Commonwealth has some of the most dramatic inequities of any state in the U.S. Communities of color bear twenty times the environmental burden of predominantly white neighborhoods; that includes hazardous waste sites and polluting power plants.

Jessica Yeh, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine in the General Internal Medicine Divisionand core faculty member at the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, has been selected to join the American Diabetes Association's National Health Disparities Committee, which serves as an advisory and steering committee for the association's work on reducing inequities facing populations disparately affected by diabetes.

«Pelle the Conqueror» (opening Friday at the Music Hall) is a great agrarian epic in which landowners and farm workers live side by side in a state of stark and seemingly immutable inequity.

The Time's Up initiative, unveiled on New Year's Day and signed on by 300 prominent Hollywood women, is designed to address gender inequity in the workplace and provide a legal defense fund for women who have suffered sexual harassment or assault, but its first big impact was seen at Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony, where virtually every woman attending wore black..

Now having suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous inequity, the ladies have begun to throw stones at the glass houses of the establishment.