Sentences with phrase «systemic disadvantages in»

(See for example, this article by Kendyl Sebesta, where a lawyer from Trinidad claimed systemic disadvantages in the legal profession barred him from a meaningful articling experience and eventually led him to hire a law clerk who involved him with a series of fraudulent mortgage transactions).

But I also believe that social justice is important given the systemic disadvantages in our country; heterosexual divorce is probably more detrimental than gay marriage; caring for the poor goes a long way toward reducing the «felt need» for abortion; and that setting Biblical morality up as civil law is probably not the way to go in a pluralistic society...

I believe we're moving towards a world of technological haves and have - nots, where businesses that fail to adopt technology will have a significant and systemic disadvantage in the marketplace going forward.

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Rashawn Ray, a social psychologist at the University of Maryland, College Park, noted a «systemic and numerical disadvantage of women in higher education,» especially women of color.

As a principal of an elementary school with steadily increasing numbers of economically disadvantaged students, I have seen a shift in focus on academic as well as systemic strategies in our approach to student success.

As Youth United for Change (YUC) Executive Director and Organizer Andi Perez explains to the new recruits, they have a chance to get involved in a campaign to remedy the systemic inequalities in the Philadelphia public schools — inequalities that place them, as students of color in a rough area of the city, at a disadvantage.

The shift in educational rigor that globalization has ushered in is pushing policymakers to embrace systemic change in public education, with particular focus on closing achievement gaps between disadvantaged students and their peers.

Assessing What Really Matters in Schools: Creating Hope for the Future, by Ronald J. Newell and Mark J. Van Ryzin, asserts that» «since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.»»

c) the problem to identify and design adequate policy frameworks for supportingmitigation and adaptation in agriculture, i.e. such that do not put systemic approaches at a disadvantage due to difficulties in the quantification of emissions, and in their allocation to single products;

There is still much work to do to ensure that women who report sexual violence do not experience further individual harm and systemic disadvantage arising from their role as unrepresented and often vulnerable participants in the trial process.

Of particular note in this context is the decision in Law Society of Upper Canada v. Selwyn Milan McSween, which found explored the systemic disadvantages experienced by racialized licensees.

It reduces Indigenous disadvantage to an individual level, implying that there is a lack of responsibility on the part of Indigenous people who are on welfare, while failing to recognise the broader, systemic nature of Indigenous disadvantage in this country.

[106] The McClure Report is accordingly limited in its approach to Indigenous - specific issues, especially given the systemic nature of Indigenous disadvantage, its basis in «historical exclusion, marginalisation, and now welfare dependency», [107] and diverse circumstances of Indigenous people.

There are references to various systemic therapies, including in the Costing report: In the category of working with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, there are references to family - based interventions and «intensive interventions (such as family therapy) for those who need it»in the Costing report: In the category of working with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, there are references to family - based interventions and «intensive interventions (such as family therapy) for those who need it»In the category of working with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, there are references to family - based interventions and «intensive interventions (such as family therapy) for those who need it».

These NICE Pathways have been published at http://pathways.nice.org.uk There are references to various systemic therapies, including in the Costing report: In the category of working with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, there are references to family - based interventions and «intensive interventions (such as family therapy) for those who need it»in the Costing report: In the category of working with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, there are references to family - based interventions and «intensive interventions (such as family therapy) for those who need it»In the category of working with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, there are references to family - based interventions and «intensive interventions (such as family therapy) for those who need it».

The current criminal justice system has a deleterious effect on Indigenous communities through over-representation of Indigenous people in custody, in large part due to historically derived disadvantage and ongoing systemic discrimination.

Now I note that you said today that there's been great improvement over a short period of time, and I'm sure there has been, but you know it's interesting to me, and again I will say this because I come from a country myself where there is a disadvantaged community and a lot of government programs et cetera, it's of serious concern the extent of the dramatic inequalities that are still being experienced by these population groups when they represent only, you know, no more than 2 % of the population of a highly developed, industrialised state, and I just, it makes me wonder about things like the effectiveness of the programs, monitoring, benchmarking, what are the standards, is anybody watching this to see whether or not they really are designed to meet the disadvantages that are real in the communities, you know the real history of systemic discrimination, institutional racism?

It should be noted that socially and economically disadvantaged families may in particular benefit from family therapy and systemic practice.