Sentences with phrase «unequal societies»

• Breaking down the gender stereotypes which patriarchal gender unequal societies have imposed upon girls and boys from the very start of their lives,

This groundbreaking book goes an important stage beyond either of these ideas: it demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them - the well - off as well as the poor.

While the graphs and statistics are necessary to their argument, I would have liked first - person accounts of life in equal and unequal societies, and interviews with researchers about their work and its implications.

The authors argue that Americans, who live in one of the most unequal societies on earth, would rather destroy social bonds than present themselves as less able than others.

This groundbreaking book, based on thirty years» research, goes an important stage beyond either of these ideas: it demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them - the well - off as well as the poor.

Why people prefer unequal societies.

The letter below written by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, professor of global education at the University of Oulu, exemplifies the urgency for education to enlarge possibilities for thinking and relating to each other in complex, uncertain, plural and deeply unequal societies.

Ex-President de Klerk joined Global Education Magazine at its first edition in International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (October 17th, 2012), where he published «South Africa is one of the most unequal societies in the world ``.

And yet when introduced into unequal societies, its logic is to empower the already powerful.

This assumption glosses over the fact that in the reality of unequal societies this freedom does not exist for everyone.

South Africa is one of the most unequal societies in the world.

These changes, Bloomberg argues, have further divided an already unequal society and decreased the number of middle class consumers.

If RGTs «will not be available to everyone,» they warn, it could lead to a genetically unequal society.

An unequal society is not a fair one.

«The fact that we are an unequal society is in the background of some of the things which have happened.»

We need to make sure that our policy offer for the next Parliament is truly radical and truly able to reverse the increasingly unequal society that the Conservatives have presided over for the last seven years.

More broadly, TFA has been in the vanguard in forming a neoliberal consensus about the role of public education — and the role of public school teachers — in a deeply unequal society.

But if the question becomes one of wider social justice — of not just helping a few more individuals succeed within a very unequal society, but helping to make that society fairer overall — the prospects must look pretty bleak.

Their reintroduction will serve those who already have an advantage in life and they will further entrench our deeply unfair and unequal society.

«Mexico is a very unequal society with 50 million people living in poverty.

More generous childcare benefits, middle - income tax cuts, multi-billion-dollar infrastructure programs, and new free - trade deals all are necessary to keep Canada from becoming an unequal society, the federal government suggests.

The alarming go - to symbol of the relentless pressure that an increasingly unequal society put on art was the plight of the Detroit Institute of Art.

Not exact matches

According to the Kerner Commission's analysis, racist white America was similarly bereft of moral resources, such that government, rather than the institutions of civil society that had been so central to the classic civil - rights movement, had to become the principal agent of enforced social change in order to deal with the crisis of an America «moving toward two societies... separate and unequal.»

Also, there is nothing wrong with being sexually aroused by naked men or women, the disturbing thing with the unequal power of division (or lack of division) of power in society produces systems where women continuously lessened, by objectification (more than) men.

In the second instance, there are those who argue that since individuals are unequal in the contributions they make to a society, the inequalities of contribution ought to be recognized in consequent social, economic and political relationships.

And in 1967, a federal committee, the Kerner Commission, declared that America was «moving toward two societies, one black, one white» separate and unequal.»

This creates a stratified society based on unequal social relations that fails to provide equal opportunities for every individual to maximize their potential,... Socialists argue that socialism would allow for wealth to be distributed based on how much one contributes to society, as opposed to how much capital one holds.

Friday's San - Francisco Examiner had announced that 19 groups — from the National Organization for Women and the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice to the American Jewish Congress — would be on hand to «condemn what they claim is a central Promise Keepers» tenet: «That men and women are inherently unequal in their roles in the family and society.»»

They reflect the reality of what the UK has been becoming for some time - a more urban, educated and cosmopolitan society but also one that is more unequal and socially unjust.

From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties.

Unequal educational experience across different bands of society reflects socio - economic and structural inequalities across Britain.

These statements come from a Minister who in the past has attacked secularism as «intolerant and illiberal», has said that religious people contribute more to society than the non-religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elssociety than the non-religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsSociety», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

She has also said that religious people contribute more to society than the non religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elssociety than the non religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsSociety», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

Social science experts revisit the social mobility enigma and ask: if politicians from all parties agree that British society is unequal, why is it proving so hard to change?

The inevitable consequence of removing or weakening rights would be to make our society even more unequal between women and men and actually less productive as we'll miss out on women's skills at work.

«Allowing commercial businesses to use the First Amendment as a shield for discriminatory conduct would undermine state civil rights laws and the vital benefits they provide to residents and visitors, leaving behind a society separate and unequal by law,» the brief stated.

It seems clear that, if we want a society that doesn't simply encourage more output and consumption, regardless of how it is produced and of how unequal the resulting distribution of income, and if our measures of performance need to reflect that, then we need to look beyond the GDP measure.

In particular, the bulletin deplores what it sees as society's unequal treatment of «street» and «white - collar» crime.

Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wealth.

Khot explains that the unique games problem can be considered to describe «a strange society» where people have unequal status but are happy if their own inequality doesn't exceed some precise limit.

Jeanson: In some cases, it is because of the previously mentioned unequal views society carries about men and women's sexual expression.

The links between marriage, battery, sexual harassment, rape, prostitution and sexual humiliation in the home, at work, in pornography, in brothels and in the streets, must be made in order to fully grasp the unequal treatment of women by society and thus the law.

One way of achieving this might be to empower women to confront the state committing such human rights violations against them, through international and domestic forums coupled with the ability to directly challenge men in society who harm them.83 It must be recognized in law that the violation of women sexually and reproductively is a «form of unequal treatment.»

In context, the «unequal status of women and girls» within Somali society «sharply increases their vulnerability» to many forms of violations key among them «gender - based violence during humanitarian crisis» as with any individual or family displacement more so due to conflict and drought, existing «community support structures» are disrupted exposing them to «unsafe physical surrounding» (Ibid) thereby increasing their vulnerability to exploitation.

Some argue that desegregation is no longer necessary in today's society, while others fear a return to the days of separate and decidedly unequal education.»

For example, people generally believe that unequal remuneration for work is fair if it rewards differing levels of expertise, effort or contribution to society.

The book examines the rewards and incentives of different professions and finds them often unequal to their contribution to society.

«Until school admissions are properly policed we will continue to have a highly divided and unequal schooling system and society.»

The idea of society providing a quality, comprehensive education for all children is inspiring and attainable, but the old model for delivering that education — a monolithic government entity led by politicians with a captive audience of students forced into grossly unequal schools — has got to go, one of the nation's pioneers in public school reform told a Tulane audience on Thursday.

A study of the Big Society social intervention project in the United Kingdom argued that «the philanthropic environment promotes and facilitates one - way, inherently unequal relationships between donors and recipients» (Rodger 2013, 737).