Sentences with phrase «not achieved equality»

But twenty years after the Touchstones Report, we still have not achieved equality for women in the legal profession, despite a wide range of efforts and initiatives designed to promote that goal.
We have not achieved equality,» Ms. Clinton told the crowd at the Grand Hyatt in Midtown during a Women's Equality Party rally.
As the push for every student to succeed continues, we must not achieve equality or equity at the expense of justice.

Not exact matches

We should recognize that gender equality won't be achieved until minds are changed.
If we get distracted — if we pay lip service to gender equality but fail to apply the true accelerators of progress in our own organizations — then we may not achieve the results we want.
This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.
You act as though gays have already achieved equality, but sadly this isn't the case.
Please accept that I don't want anyone to feel all that has been achieved by progress in equality be taken away.
Even now we have not achieved full equality between the white European immigrants, the native Americans, the children of black slaves from Africa and the newer immigrants from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
If equality is not achieved, then why do they piss and moan about alimony, paying for their little shit factories that a man may not have even fathered and have a court system that defaults to catering women over men?
The second question is related to the above: a «free market» baseline of justice is about procedure - how outcomes are arrived at, who is involved in making decisions, has rights over their own actions, how actions are agreed by parties etc. (or something like that) whereas equality is an outcome, that may or may not be achieved under various procedural arrangements, and may or may not be viewed as desirable by people who hold different views about what forms of society - specifications over who has what rights to do what to who.
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.
The fight for marriage equality in every state in the nation doesn't stop here; it simply brings us ever closer to achieving equality for all.»
The Human Rights Campaign, America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality, recently wrote to Cuomo, urging him not to reappoint Graffeo based on her LGBT record.
While we haven't achieved gender equality (not least on Today), Tessa gave a compelling Today performance last week.
This is unacceptable and New York will not rest until women achieve full equality.
I can't think of any other change that would better present a face of Labour that adequately represents our commitment to achieving women's equality in every workplace.
«I am not going to leave this planet earth» until equality for women has been achieved, Cuomo vowed, his voice drowned out in applause.
Gender equality has not yet been achieved in science, medicine, and engineering, but NYSCF, through its Initiative on Women in Science and Engineering, is committed to making sure progress is made.
«Female empowerment is not only about equality and being able to achieve greatness, but also about living authentically and individually,» says psychologist and nutritional health coach, and founder of Fermentanicals, Jayta Szpitalak.
Achieving gender equality, social justice, and environmental sustainability is not going to be achieved without people like you agitating for change, whether in your workplace, in politics, or more broadly in society.
Rooting out this bias in our cultures and social structures is an essential step, not only in achieving gender equality and social justice but in environmental sustainability, too.
In an interview with Indiewire, the filmmaker was direct about the political implications: «You can get on your soapbox, you can push your political agenda or your religious agenda, against gay marriage, against racial equality, but you can't argue about these people in their home... Equality as a concept isn't something I think we ever achieve, it's something we make progress toward, and hope that we don't slip back and lose any of it.
Therefore, to tackle maternal mortality, we can not simply consider the question as merely a healthcare issue — we need to combine this with analysis and researching solutions to achieve gender equality.
Fong says that in order to achieve equality with dominant, capitalistic countries like the United States, officials also pushed the idea that the country needed to become a center of finance and technology — not just provide cheap labor, as it had been doing.
«Until School - Related Gender - Based Violence is eliminated in and around schools across the world, many of the ambitious targets set by the global community through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to provide safe and supportive learning environments, to achieve gender equality and to end violence against women and girls, will not be realized,» said UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo - Ngcuka
It is not obvious what the «right» levels of economic equality and mobility are, much less how to achieve them.
While civil rights debates have not been the most vocal issue of the administration during the last four years, do not be surprised if the next four years are built around subtle strides towards an attempt to achieve educational equality.
«People were saying: «I find I can't even have this conversation about equality in the art world»,» says Rolls - Bentley, «because so many people think it's already been achieved.
Nature is not based on equality but simple and sincere goal toward what need to be achieved reaching a balance with nature functioning without spoiling simple principles in the underlying of our fundamentals.
There are hundreds of human rights activists and social workers who are not only speaking for human rights, but who are struggling to achieve their goals of education, peace and equality.
According to this «small» doctrine, justice is done, equality is achieved, and your responsibilities are met by having a shower instead of bath, recycling your newspapers, and not using plastic bags.
This prevents her from conceiving of a world in which equality is achieved, not by rationing and people having less, but by people having more, and having their expectations raised.
How do we make real changes, not just «pinkwash» over the issue, and actually begin to achieve gender equality in law firms?
The duty to accommodate is not about achieving formal equality.
It is not the type that «treats all people the same for all purposes,» rather it is the type of «equality» which will be achieved by imposing measures and remedies to achieve a social goal.
Even though same - sex marriage became legal in June 2015, full and complete equality for the queer community has not yet been achieved.
Substantive equality on the other hand not only permits the recognition of difference but may require it where this is necessary to achieve equality between racial groups.
What this means is that the government, in line with international human rights definitions, accepts that racial equality is not always achieved merely by treating individuals or groups of particular ethnic origin the same as those who do not originate from that background.
This position is inconsistent with Article 2 (2) of ICERD which requires that where human rights are not enjoyed equally, then the provision of special measures are required to ensure equality is achieved between racial groups.
«However it is essential that these efficiencies are not achieved at the expense of valuable programs and initiatives that build an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce and contribute to achieving health equality more broadly.»
The principled approach of trying to achieve an equality of division does not apply to income and maintenance (see separate guides)
On this view, differential treatment on the basis of race that seeks to achieve equality is not discriminatory.
In my view this latter approach is consistent with a state's international law obligation not only to proscribe laws that limit the enjoyment of rights but also to promote laws that seek to achieve equality.
[46] It does not address the state's broader obligation under ICERD to achieve equality.
A commitment to achieve equality in life expectancy within a generation is not meaningless or problematic.
Achieving true equality does not mean that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be assimilated or integrated into the nation's governance and society.
We can't achieve health equality by treating this as an issue solely for government to address, or solely for Indigenous peoples.
My recommendations, reproduced in full on page 9, encapsulated a human rights based approach to ending the Indigenous health crisis — one that utilises targets and benchmarks to not only provide an end in sight, but also to ensure accountability for achieving the goal of health equality.
We also began the development of what would become the Close the Gap National Indigenous Health Equality Targets to further one of the Social Justice Report 2005 recommendations - that Australian governments utilise targets and benchmarks to not only provide an end in sight to the Indigenous health equality gap, but also to ensure accountability for achieving the goal of health equality.
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