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"inequity" Definitions
  1. something that is unfair; the state of being unfair

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The story of progress in the United States around gender inequity, racial inequity, economic inequality, is circular.
Not only do police actions demonstrate inequity on the ground, but policymakers, and therefore policies, ignore that inequity, and by extension we the public who elect those policymakers ignore it.
Jamaal took on racial + economic inequity in public schools.
The status quo -- what is mainstream -- is racial inequity.
Unions for New York City's emergency medical services workers released a statement Wednesday criticizing the mayor's focus on pay inequity in sports rather than alleged pay inequity among the local forces' ranks.
After all, the very activity of smuggling depends on the inequity of the border and, if that inequity increases with a breakdown in free trade, their services will be in even higher demand.
There's no sign of class inequity or poverty or luxury.
The national discourse on pay inequity has been ramping up.
The world of South American soccer is awash in inequity.
You have awareness of global inequity, which we did not have.
Gun violence is merely a symptom of larger forces of inequity.
Higher education did not cause and will not cure economic inequity.
Once I got to college, I again saw injustice and inequity.
He added that the governor was unwilling to address that inequity.
Programs like ours are increasingly critical in addressing growing educational inequity.
It's serious business fighting the persistent gender inequity in the arts.
Let's talk about inequity of information, because that's really what's happened.
Over many years, the blue states have largely swallowed this inequity.
"There's lots of evidence of inequity in the world," Otting said.
A: The arbitrary justification of pay inequity is a man's game.
That was such a crux of the inequity of the system.
An equity inequity has driven America's wealth gap to historic levels.
This inequity negatively impacts millions of business owners and their employees.
Social inequity is not going to be solved by fighting companies.
Some popular strains of Christianity don't focus much on structural inequity.
What they found: The study found that the black population has a pollution inequity of 56%, while Hispanics (in this study, people of all races who are Hispanic or Latino) have a pollution inequity of 63%.
"We are at the front lines of educational inequity," Mr. Hart said.
"Energy inequity is about the energy system as a whole," said Evens.
It's got to be about shifting and transforming the infrastructure of inequity.
Swank, in particular, shares an unforgettable story about pay inequity in Hollywood.
PhilanthroParties are certainly not meant to celebrate in the face of inequity.
That women suffer abuse, harassment or inequity in the workplace is undeniable.
This "tribal" effect can breed neglect or inequity in funding, policy, etc.
Prosecutorial discretion empowered by inflexible sentencing, not judicial discretion, produced the inequity.
After a century of such inequity, it is time to say 'enough'.
His message was to anyone who would protest racial injustice or inequity.
Inequity and racial segregation undermine democracy and stunt economic progress for all.
"There is inequity overall, but it is trending toward balance," Knaapen said.
There was a huge inequity in wealth, a stirring of working classes.
Hardly anything connected abuse and harassment to other issues of gender inequity.
There's an even worse inequity for employers with fewer than 50 employees.
The reforms currently in play begin to resolve some areas of inequity.
For Metis artist and language advocate Christi Belcourt, the inequity is unacceptable.
In reality, Robin Wright can and does speak out against unfairly being paid less than her co-star Kevin Spacey but the inequity in her bank account is a painful reflection of the inequity her character experiences on screen.
The Weinstein scandal has made apparent the vast gender inequity behind the camera.
Still, within these spaces is the ongoing presence of discrimination and structural inequity.
The lack of diversity represented in US government is indicative of structural inequity.
Britain's broken and cruel housing market may be the country's most grotesque inequity.
Inequity is stark: white pupils hugely outperform black ones in reading and maths.
There is no "right" way to comport oneself in the midst of inequity.
I would also like a real commitment to end pay and opportunity inequity.
Because you've got built in inequity" Artificial intelligence will be "upending the economy.
He hopes his story will encourage others to fight intolerance and social inequity.
We were vocal and protested the Vietnam War, homophobia, gender inequity and racism.
Gabe, we were just talking about inequity and wealth and stuff like that.
This inequity has scratched at the social fabric of America for practically forever.
According to a rival theory, people respond to inequity not rationally but emotionally.
Even when Native Americans are cast in movies, the inequity persists off-screen.
The city is grappling with deep-seated inequity, including in its school system.
In addition to reinforcing gender inequity, it causes burnout and costly chronic illnesses.
She left there after filing a lawsuit charging discriminatory treatment and salary inequity.
In this story too, pay inequity shaped lives and families and inherited opportunities.
That inequity was good for, say, Wal-Mart, but bad for small businesses.
Even as a professor, she experienced sexism, gender pay inequity and workplace discrimination.
Chicago's entrenched and decades-long struggles with crime, segregation, policing and inequity loom.
So for us it's about closing that wealth gap to address inequity in tech.
You can start fighting inequity, whether down the street or around the world, sooner.
Already, in Silicon Valley, the Google bus has become a symbol of this inequity.
We've got to talk about No. 2, ending pay inequity and what that means.
Amr Gaber: The second demand is a commitment to end pay and opportunity inequity.
Any other tech company should just address this because there is so much inequity.
I remain committed as always to fighting injustice and inequity in all its forms.
She likes pre-industrial levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and dislikes inequity in STEM.
It is this blatant inequity—and overt injustice—that should concern the whole country.
The "Pink Tax" has many women seeing red when it comes to gender inequity.
Commit to mitigating bias, inequity and other potential harms in automated decision-making systems.
For us, teaching computer science was the most powerful way to combat educational inequity.
It's not something that everybody has to deal with, and that is the inequity.
Victims of pay inequity and pregnancy discrimination too often lose their battles for justice.
Jerry Brown called it a "developers' $9 billion bond" that would deepen school inequity.
The ERA may also have a positive effect on pay inequity and pregnancy discrimination.
Kudos to the 2017 tax bill for eliminating all but $85033,000 of this inequity.
The experiment, conducted by four economists, was designed to test rival theories of inequity.
Many complain of careers slowed or stymied by prejudice, pay inequity and family responsibilities.
It's also a major driver of inequity in metropolitan areas dominated by racial divides.
Take action by writing a letter about segregation and educational inequity in your community.
The company also denied that there was any inequity in its career development practices.
The researchers simulated an experiment to understand how inequity in earnings reverberates into retirement.
This system, while it might seem meritocratic, in fact leads to a shocking inequity.
As long as inequity persists and the gender gap in tech remains, we'll march.
That the burden of student debt breaks across economic class lines compounds this inequity.
She also recently wrote a New York Times opinion piece on pay inequity and sexism.
Embedded deeply within American soil and fertilized by American policies, bearing the fruits of inequity.
But if you look through the lens of financial and social inequity, the picture changes.
Ending forced arbitration is the gateway change needed to transparently address inequity in the workplace.
The ERA would give women the resources to challenge discrimination in instances of pay inequity.
DeLauro's Paycheck Fairness Act tries to push back on lingering inequity in three key ways.
Another thing I wish I had understood much earlier is what true inequity looks like.
They did these selfless acts because they wanted to shine light on inequity and oppression.
The report, "Predictive Inequity in Object Detection," should be taken with a grain of salt.
"For us, it's about closing that wealth gap to address inequity in tech," Williams said.
Uprooting years of gender inequity in tech requires more than saccharine speeches and corporate platitudes.
This story shines a light on the gross inequity that transgender Americans face in healthcare.
Obamacare offered a partial solution to healthcare inequity by covering about half of the uninsured.
This petty decision is just another show of racism, discrimination, stupidity, inequity, and divisive politics.
This vast inequity raises questions about how the wealth from natural resources should be shared.
Back then, this place was more of a den of inequity than it is now.
What Jesus did talk about, which was poverty and all kinds of inequity and inequality.
In a health system riddled with inequity, we risk making dangerous biases automated and invisible.
It may not be the cure-all to inequity, but we need a starting point.
Much of the debate around higher-education inequity focuses on lessening the cost of tuition.
And it has an abysmal track record of discrimination, pay inequity, and unrealistic productivity quotas.
And oddly enough, at least initially in the US, it's flipped the disaster inequity script.
The European Union, as an institution, is one of the prime drivers of this inequity.
No more hiding underserved populations within statistical averages; no more acceptance of inequity as inevitable.
I think it's incredibly important to use our platform to address the issue of inequity.
Still, the industrywide shake-up wrought by streaming services hasn't changed one thing: Gender inequity.
Student debt affects women disproportionately because of wage inequity, so that's an easy starting point.
"Low tariffs help the whole world organize itself better and helps relieve inequity," he said.
Transparency may not be the cure-all to inequity, but we need a starting point.
The former Harvard professor promoted a message of economic fairness, while targeting corruption and racial inequity.
For this particular class, we are attending a conference about inequity in criminal justice and health.
That said, she's not suggesting that forced paternity leave is a cure-all for pay inequity.
Now, the White House has called on some technology companies to help right that inequity. Jet.
Gender pay inequity has negative consequences on employee retention rates across the board, the report said.
The institute sponsors research and highlights the inequity of female characters in TV and the movies.
And then follow up with action to address the systemic inequity that exists on college campuses.
Correction: My headline originally said that Gates regretted not fighting inequality, but he actually said inequity.
The Obama administration could begin to salvage its legacy in Iraq by turning this inequity around.
Their efforts address poverty and inequity, and the mobilization of private capital in the public interest.
The tech industry has offered partial solutions to this inequity, but mostly in self-serving ways.
Education inequity in the United States, amplified by school privatization is indeed a human rights issue.
This glaring inequity takes a significant human and economic toll on our nation and our families.
The president isn't losing any sleep over this inequity, and neither is the Senate GOP caucus.
But it may take many years to determine whether a policy produces or sustains racial inequity.
These are folks who view discussions about reducing racial inequity and increasing queer equality as divisive.
It's also at the incredible inequity that exists not only here but in virtually every city.
Believing in meritocracy, she thought she could power through any inequity by working twice as hard.
Social media has changed how we communicate, and social inequity continues to differentiate how we feel.
We end up silencing new voices with new solutions and repeat cycles of violence and inequity.
It also shows how bias on the part of individual judges and prosecutors drives sentencing inequity.
Meanwhile, the central fact of America today is not its economic vigor but its profound inequity.
More to the point, the very right to choose is often a matter of economic inequity.
But raising tolls on lanes that were previously intended for car-poolers only increases the inequity.
While all cities had some inequity in smoking rates across various neighborhoods, some cities stood out.
Besides the inequity among South Carolina and New York, what did the country get for this?
Unfortunately, his trouble with solving racial inequity in South Bend was the worst part of his debate.
These reactions, however, must be understood as a symptom of continued racial inequity in the justice system.
Just as in the 18703s, America is struggling against racial inequity and seething at our political establishment.
In fact, the tech giant has a long history of problematic incidents pegged to sexism and inequity.
Zuckerberg also admitted the inequity of his own wealth in his Harvard commencement speech delivered in May.
We pay taxes and the return on our investment is intentional inequity, enriching politically connected school profiteers.
By 2014, a follow-up study found that the racial inequity in fouls called had completely disappeared.
The effort to catalog the inequity in onscreen roles for women and minorities has a new weapon.
He explained that his work demands that he "grapple with the presence of inequity, racism, and unfairness." 
Thus, equal opportunities to perform create a few super stars, who win extreme rewards creating great inequity.
There are social, political and economic measures that must be taken to address poverty, crime and inequity.
There is greater danger: As Mogadishu hoards aid, regional inequity emboldens Al-Shabaab, al Qaeda's regional chapter.
Having separate corporate-sponsored stations could also lead to some inequity across the system as a whole.
It's designed to address educational inequity and is part of a larger movement seeking pathway to citizenship.
The 22 responses that promptly poured in included personal stories about harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and pay inequity.
Passionately denouncing the inequity of his time, Francis of Assisi abjured his wealth and joined the beggars.
To foist the task of remedying societal inequity on relatively underpaid, unappreciated admissions officers is mostly unfair.
Time's up on sexual harassment and abuse, but it's also up on gender discrimination, inequity and condescension.
The sprawling, nuance-minded story explored the difficulties of racial inequity, even in a socially conscious school.
Part of the reason is the historical legacy of the reservations, which have created persistent economic inequity.
In 2015, a former Google employee alleged a pattern of pay inequity, a charge the company denied.
The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative also recently published research documenting gender inequity across airtime, awards, and songwriting credits.
The former is much easier than the latter, especially within a society that masks inequity so well.
But really, how inspiring is a symbol of financial-world gender inequity to a cashier at CVS?
Do you think the United States soccer team's case is part of a larger system of inequity?
Recognition is growing that rapid house-price inflation has caused intergenerational inequity, destabilised finance and constrained economic growth.
"Non-POC individuals are encouraged to provide additional donations as acknowledgment of this historical inequity," the group said.
The speakers and eulogizers acknowledged this by tying historical issues of racial inequity and terrorism to contemporary ones.
In the four-minute video, Warren promoted a message of economic fairness, while targeting corruption and racial inequity.
Inequity." She added: "Systemic racism began with slavery and has woven itself into the fabric of our culture.
"Ending forced arbitration is the gateway change needed to transparently address inequity in the workplace," the organizers wrote.
Narrowing that inequity "is good for those children, but it's also good to stop future crises," he said.
Dress codes of yore are starting to crumble in the face of critiques about sexism and racial inequity.
" She said "hearing their stories, truly hearing the inequity, I felt like we had to tell this story.
They have made the term "Second Gilded Age" a convenient shorthand for affluent arrogance and economic inequity today.
Erica Anderson: Yeah, I mean, plus one to Celie, the second demand on pay inequity is so important.
"We're always under attack, not just reproductive rights, not just pay inequity—it's all these things," she says.
"Ending forced arbitration is the gateway change needed to transparently address inequity in the workplace," the statement said.
"Oppression, inequity, marginalization and injustice are, at their core, manifestations of our relationships with people's bodies," she says.
She is also expected to highlight pay inequity between black and white teachers and male and female teachers.
Inequity in systems of education, criminal justice, health and employment impede black Americans from experiencing intergenerational social mobility.
Inequity was part of the story, yet even in those tumultuous times it was not all of it.
We should not hasten to "heal" without dealing with the underlying issues of hurt and mistrust and inequity.
In contrast, we whites seem curiously unwilling to shoulder any responsibility for our own part in racial inequity.
Finally, in 1997, the Alabama Supreme Court upheld Judge Reese's finding that the state's educational inequity was unconstitutional.
No one can make informed policy decisions to improve public safety, reduce costs or identify patterns of inequity.
This highlights a significant concern among physicians that digital technologies will increase the inequity in American health care.
Earlier panelists had discussed how the rise in population and economic vitality in many cities had exacerbated inequity.
Many candidates in the large field for the Democratic nomination are already focused on racial and economic inequity.
The report suggests that these students belong to "less affluent schools," pointing to a problem of economic inequity.
Our collective failure to ensure equal access to an excellent education can only deepen inequity and racial division.
But when it comes to Puerto Rico, the Medicaid program was conceived in inequity and born in neglect.
And last November, 20,000 employees employees walked out over sexual harassment, discrimination, and pay inequity at the company.
They not only want an advocate for fairness, but someone who will fight corruption and inequity by example.
But it is worth trying to address the cultural inequity that healthier food options have in this country.
The lawsuit comes after Uber attempted to address pay inequity with new performance review system that started this summer.
To correct this inequity, congressional Democrats have proposed raising the minimum wage gradually to $15 an hour by 2024.
"The fact that DeVos is such a lightning rod has highlighted issues of educational inequality and inequity," Melvoin said.
Because people's underlying capacities vary considerably, you're not going to design a social policy that overcomes that intrinsic inequity.
Tchen currently heads a Chicago law firm that advises companies on gender inequity, sexual harassment and lack of diversity.
We know that working mothers still do more housework than their spouses, we don't need to perpetuate this inequity.
The American South and New England are hotbeds of racialized inequity across public and private realms, then and now.
Urban planning and infrastructure, the scourge of economic inequity and society dysfunction: these were just some of his targets.
Democrats should push heavily for statehood for both D.C. and Puerto Rico to balance out some of this inequity.
However, not all changes demanded by employees have been addressed, including a commitment to end pay and opportunity inequity.
The poll did not ask about societal issues of income inequity, but many respondents brought it up in interviews.
How does a visual artist, author or songwriter maintain that entrepreneurial spirit in the face of this legal inequity?
More than a case of personal predilection or individual bias, this is because of housing policy and structural inequity.
There is little hidden at this point about the excess and inequity baked into much of the fashion industry.
Williams was concerned about gender inequity in how penalties are assigned, and this report does not address her concerns.
Interview a parent, grandparent or another adult about their educational experiences related to segregation, integration and inequity in education.
The Pay Equity Coalition, for example, is using the internet and social media to promote discussions about pay inequity.
Even in light of gender inequity, a majority of Americans support the ERA, according to a 2019 YouGov poll.
Among children placed in foster care nationally, a troubling racial inequity persists: In 23, nearly one-quarter were black.
"It is waking up to the reality that is inequity, and the reality that is environmental injustice," she added.
" Instead, she wrote, "Candidates must be pushed — and embrace the chance to discuss — their personal relationship to gender inequity.
We're a nation that does best when we tear down walls of division or inequity and build larger coalitions.
But on Thursday evening, several players continued their protest, once again calling attention to systemic racism and racial inequity.
Then there's the underlying inequity of not giving workers with disabilities the same minimum wage protections as workers without.
It's hard to speak up against inequity and risk being unpopular—but equal pay matters for us all. http://t.
But since this is real life and the world is freighted with inequity, many on Twitter found his logic unconscionable.
"That would be ideal in reversing the inequity of our rights that have been eroded over the years," Cox said.
But perhaps Pompeo's encounters are informed by an inequity that goes deeper than women making 80 cents on the dollar.
The actress plans to take a year off from the screen to study gender inequity, focusing on the pay gap.
Our world is filled with inequity, and it is soothing to step into a world where persistence always pays off.
Despite this importance, little is known about the neural mechanism that underlies the link between economic inequity and mood change.
In spite of the overwhelming beauty of this scene, serious inequity exists on the apparent paradise we have been given.
Examples of unfairness include inequity in workload or pay, cheating, and evaluations and promotions driven by factors other than merit.
Will you paint a picture of tomorrow that candidly acknowledges the yesterdays that created the inequity we work to overcome?
The inequity is among the factors driving teachers across Arizona to strike beginning next Thursday, following protests across the state.
The decision to separate from my son's father sprang in part from the inequity I felt as the primary caregiver.
Open discussion of salaries among peers and co-workers, experts say, is a powerful tool to fight pay inequity. 3.
I have to guess that the lack of a coordinated lobby for small businesses caused this inequity in the bill.
King's Error," arguing that it was "both wasteful and self-defeating" to link Vietnam with domestic inequity and unrest. "Dr.
Most people understand the inequity of school districts in wealthier areas having more money than those in less affluent communities.
The female-founded firm pushed back on the decision, highlighting longtime complaints that the show fostered gender inequity and sexism.
To add to the confusion and inequity, a survivor who remarries before age 2628 forfeits both SBP and DIC eligibility.
The absolute level of spending may be small; the perception of inequity, though, can be beyond all proportion to the cost.
One of the unintended consequences of salary inequity-- harder to get us to take one of those non-disclosure payoffs huh?
I never fell for the myth Obama's election would solve the problem with America, built-in structural inequity powered by racism.
That inequity disappeared under the health law, which prohibited insurers from charging women higher rates than men for the same services.
Both India and China have long nurtured grandiose visions of linking and diverting rivers to mitigate the inequity of nature's distribution.
Painful politics of racial divide, white flight, inequity, and lack of investment became Detroit's public dominant narrative, no longer its vehicles.
Ms Bhattacharyya is "painfully aware of the inequity of the situation", but said that the law really left her no choice.
Senior flight attendants are given something free that is clearly valuable, which exacerbates existing pay inequity between senior and junior employees.
It's all connected — what we see and absorb all around us is what inevitably leads to inequity and harassment at work.
In both places, schools get public funding, a lot of autonomy and hefty state regulation to raise standards and limit inequity.
The problem of harassment and inequity is everywhere in medicine, and so everyone in medicine should be galvanized to fix it.
You can start fighting inequity sooner, whether it is in your own community or in a country halfway around the world.
This inequity is to the detriment of everyone, and must change if we want to improve the Internet for all communities.
Democrats have to rediscover language that can channel a sense of anger about social and economic inequity, though not so nihilistically.
Here's an example of inequity that affects readiness: Home from deployment, an Air Force reservist gets a VA prescription for PTSD.
In Latin America, inequity is enormous across the region, and poor women face real gaps in access to reproductive health care.
Gilman's matriarchy perpetuates its fair share of inequity and iniquity: blacks are taken to be an inferior race, treated with paternalism.
He has few ways to keep from dwelling on his misfortune and the inequity of having his life change so radically.
It talks about spin measurement and hidden variants, Bell's inequity, H. Study regarding the smallest particle of issue — the physical Quantum.
Still, the findings "are another important piece of a larger body of research exploring how social inequity damages health," he says.
VICE News asked the 28 companies that first signed the pledge, in June 2016, about their efforts to end pay inequity.
The teachers of West Virginia are leading the way with a conviction that should be a national example for challenging inequity.
A Slack discussion about sharing salaries led to the creation of a shared document, which led to further conversations about inequity.
To address this inequity, we are funding 14 safety-net health centers to expand buprenorphine among uninsured or publicly insured patients.
It's an invaluable look at where inequity begins, as well as the difficulty of getting to the place where it ends.
While documenting this inequity, Frazier said she felt the ground tremble like a convulsion similar to the seizures her mother suffered.
"Populations that are already experiencing inequity are most impacted" by the Trump administration rule, Ehrlich, the Power to Decide CEO, said.
The solution to that inequity is not to dismantle those options, but to help needy families find their own transportation solutions.
In housing-project lobbies and three-generation family apartments, outside methadone clinics and art studios, people take note of the inequity.
The platform calls for a broad range of reforms to address not only gender inequity but also racial and economic inequality.
Now Uber and Lyft, facing the growing inequity between its stockholders and its drivers, are pursuing measures to address the gap.
Ziegler: I personally think diversity is important in the tech industry because it is a space about wealth building and wealth creation, and me, being a black person and being widely aware of social inequity, I think tech is a really great space that allows for some of that inequity to be dissipated in multiple ways.
As you can see in the following chart, the inequity between the three highest-funded and three lowest-funded CIGs actually increased by $1.6 million dollars under the de Blasio 2017 and 2018 budgets; between the Metropolitan Museum (the top-funded CIG) and the Bronx County Historical Society (the lowest funded CIG) the inequity increased by $623,376.
Addressing inequity among residents caused by outmoded structures is a key issue among cities participating in Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities initiative.
We must all be responsible for challenging the barriers that lead to systemic inequity— of which equal pay is a big part.
Today, Epstein interviews Anand Giridharadas, who has become one of the world's most prominent critics of inequality and inequity in contemporary capitalism.
" On racial inequity in housing: "Minnesota is known to be an excellent place for innovation and jobs and great quality of life.
I think all of these systemic issues ... The deep down in the bones, the discrimination and the inequity, Google is no different.
Journalists in particular are trained to be "fair," even when granting equal time and attention to both sides results in spectacular inequity.
This horrific disparity shouldn't be shocking, considering the racialized inequity found across all social institutions in the U.S., from employment to housing.
The Wall Street Journal reports Uber is facing a federal probe from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over allegations of gender inequity.
These laws alone won't solve pay inequity, but it's a solid starting point for holding companies accountable for pay disparities, Zalis said.
"I want to encourage software developers, inventors, and scientists to consider how they can use their skills to fight inequity," Gates says.
I can tell her what to do if a stranger approaches, teach her about pay inequity or warn her about sexual harassment.
Policymakers have long struggled to correct this perverse inequity, but one of the best solutions may already be in our pockets - smartphones.
"Abortion rights are inextricably tied to the fight against economic and racial inequity, full stop," said DFA's Charles Chamberlain in a statement.
For instance, chronic stress from inequity has been associated with persistent, low-grade inflammation, which could increase the risk of heart disease.
That is why we have been leading the effort to fight this inequity in both the court system and in Congress. Rep.
In its Minneapolis 2040 report, the city took the remarkable step of acknowledging — in writing — its own role in perpetuating that inequity.
And in a health system riddled with inequity, we have to ask: Could the use of A.I. in medicine worsen health disparities?
Contrary to his promises but not surprisingly, Mr. Trump spent his first year cementing the inequity he decried at his swearing-in.
The American justice system is rife with examples of inequity, but being too tough on white-collar criminals is not among them.
So to literally do nothing in the face of the status quo of racial inequity is to essentially support the status quo.
Bill Clinton worked with Silicon Valley to shape internet policy and promoted closing "the digital divide" as a solution to economic inequity.
As a pioneer in healthcare for more than 30 years, she's driven major developments toward the eradication of disease, poverty and inequity.
In the Times article, former staff members described in on-the-record interviews their experiences with sexism, including harassment and pay inequity.
LA has an urgent housing crisis that is facing many communities, and Boyle Heights is particularly vulnerable to rising rents and inequity.
But how can any sincere confrontation of racial inequity in policing and the criminal-justice system ignore the inconvenient singularity of Liang's conviction?
But colonization on our own planet led to the genocide and displacement of cultures and people, economic inequity, and the destruction of environments.
These investigations indirectly led to the foundation of the Time's Up initiative, an effort to resolve inequity in the workplace across all industries.
If employees can discuss their salaries openly with each other, though, it can help draw attention to both intentional and unintentional pay inequity.
Racial disparities in health are getting better, but there's still a deep and persistent inequity between the health of white and black mothers.
In the era of #MeToo, the stubborn climate of sexual harassment and gender inequity in the workplace and beyond is finally being acknowledged.
Alan Rupe, an attorney representing four public school districts that sued the state, said the new law does not remedy the inequity problem.
After her trip, the heiress called on Disney CEO Bob Iger to address the pay inequity between him and the average Disney worker.
It's true that there are many reasons behind this inequity, from inadequate sex ed to continued, society-wide disregard for women's sexual satisfaction.
"There's a huge inequity in society," Sean David Morton, a leading redemption theory proponent (and self-proclaimed UFO expert and psychic), tells Merlan.
But through his daughter's service, he saw an inequity that fueled his anger at the privileged Americans among whom he had long worked.
Chiraag Bains is the director of Legal Strategies at Demos, a racial justice organization that works toward solutions to political and economic inequity.
Until now, most of the #MeToo and Time's Up stories have fallen into the category of sexual harassment, assault, rape, or pay inequity.
It's a disgrace to humanity that for millenniums we've placed a divine stamp on discrimination against women, insisting that inequity is actually sacred.
Here, themes of housing inequity, protest movements, and the enormity of our material histories are evoked with stark arrangements and decisive, dramatic moments.
This point finds little momentum within the exhibition itself, yet the underlying inequity and its present-day dangers beg for more sustained attention.
"Since then we have redesigned our grading and selection system so that there is no longer any grade inequity," she said by email.
The real inequity lies in the deficient preparation that some students receive, and that is where our efforts and finances should be directed.
But it will be a place that allows so many now crushed by inequity to participate in the creation of a new world.
The degree of racial inequity and its impact in the prison system as documented by The Times have rarely, if ever, been investigated.
The Florida Democrat suggested that lawmakers should consider other issues related to gender in American society instead of bathroom issues, like wage inequity.
The film's aura of malignant mystery hints at a hidden crime, both literal and in the stark inequity of the lives it portrays.
The solution to this inequity must be borne by all citizens — with the service members sharing in that responsibility, not going it alone.
We are going to have to think long and hard about the best way to address wealth inequity in a post-manufacturing economy.
But scholars are also working hard on research and teaching that imagines vocation in a way that takes into account prejudice and inequity.
There would likely be a good deal of inequity about what products were available, how much they cost, and what stores were carrying them.
Ten years ago, that optimism prompted Warren to give the bulk of his fortune to our foundation to help fight inequity in the world.
"The web has evolved into an engine of inequity and division; swayed by powerful forces who use it for their own agendas," he added.
It also promised to end pay and opportunity inequity and make its annual internal report on incidents of sexual harassment available to all employees.
The company has previously come under fire for pay inequity, accused of systematically underpaying women workers, and even facing discrimination charges for unequal pay.
"Ending forced arbitration is the gateway change needed to transparently address inequity in the workplace," the group wrote in a blog post on Medium.
Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens: Measures of Inequity continues at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (1040 Metropolitan Avenue, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn) through September 27.
The Black artists Memphis created through pain, racial inequity, and adversity are the strongest, smartest, most creative hustlers on this side of the Mississippi.
"Ending forced arbitration is the gateway change needed to transparently address inequity in the workplace," the group wrote in a Medium post on Monday.
Underdeveloped infrastructure and a lack of investment from telecom companies have contributed to this stark internet inequity in one of America's most resilient cities.
I don't want to not be able to do that, but I don't think it's possible to do without knowing about all the inequity.
Leaning in to the microphone, she decries police brutality, economic inequity, racial strife, domestic violence — just about every pressing issue of these American days.
He was as articulate as anyone I had ever heard speak about the impact of injustice and power inequity in our community and beyond.
To many Kenyans, Uhuru — whose personal fortune, most of it presumably inherited, has been estimated at a half-billion dollars — embodies their country's inequity.
"What are the systemic issues that need to be addressed around poverty, racism, segregation and inequity to reduce the likelihood of this happening again?"
Most Americans will be unmoved by the plight of anyone in the top tax brackets, but Stewart is right to challenge this seeming inequity.
The decisions embedded in how we pursue a massive modernization project could provide an opportunity to address climate change and racial and economic inequity.
Science fiction dystopias with out-of-control technology or terrifying forms of social inequity can reflect genuine challenges or dilemmas that we face today.
The firm's Smart Money Confidence tracker includes data such as the relationship between stocks and bonds and commercial hedge fund positions inequity index futures.
Much of his commentary was aimed at professional athletes, but Mr. Moore also wrote about the inequity of coed sports at more junior levels.
School segregation and educational inequity may be a sensitive and uncomfortable topic for students and teachers, regardless of their race, ethnicity or economic status.
"We set out to correct a glaring inequity in our public spaces," New York's first lady, Chirlane McCray, said in an interview on Thursday.
Sterling says that the original suit that was filed was about pay-and-promotion inequity, and that harassment has nothing to do with it.
"Being underpaid once should not condemn one to a lifetime of inequity," Ms. James said in April when the City Council passed the law.
If we do not, we miss a critical opportunity to develop our nation's human capital — and we also run the risk of deepening inequity.
But in March she joined a lawsuit brought by a colleague, Kerrie L. Campbell, that accused the firm of sex discrimination and pay inequity.
Employees are often squeamish to share salaries with one another, which can lead to wage suppression and a lack of transparency around pay inequity.
" And Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, praised his decision to shift "the question of representation to structural inequity and real impact.
He argues that he can use his position — and his billions — to improve outcomes in gun violence, education, racial inequity, and opioid addiction too.
These interviews reveal a bigger picture of school funding inequity, undervalued educators (three-quarters of whom are women), and a systemic economic deprioritization of education.
We live in a time of such horrible inequity and struggle, with, yes, much to be grateful for, but also much to rectify and improve.
"It is my hope that a decade from now, we will be reporting on progress, instead of more health inequity in our society," Bolan wrote.
Bel-Air, as Cooper dubbed his version, is set in modern day and explores serious issues such as police brutality, gang crime and wealth inequity.
In spite of all the focus on gender inequity in the film and TV industry over the past few years, the discrepancies are still dire.
Mr Obama's announcement leaned heavily on Abraham Lincoln, and while he name-checked Martin Luther King junior, he otherwise steered clear of discussing racial inequity.
Such a two‐tiered system would 'foster inequity and unequal treatment in favor of a very small cohort of criminal defendants who are extremely wealthy.
"The lack of significant progress indicates how deeply ingrained inequity in tech actually is, and indicates comprehensive approaches — not quick fixes — are needed," Scott said.
There's pay inequity, too: Last year, WWE's highest paid wrestler was Brock Lesnar, who earned $12 million, followed by John Cena, who earned $8.3 million.
"Widening economic inequity has become an increasing concern for society and has been implicated as a source of several psychiatric diseases including depression," they write.
The second area of focus should be welfare, which under current plans is on the wrong side of the line between tough love and inequity.
The women's fight is also reflective of a larger inequity: Across sports, female athletes struggle to get the same pay and attention that men get.
But the shift means fewer jobs at the bottom rungs of a law firm for paralegals, who are often women—its own form of inequity.
Amenities in the workplace cannot compensate for an economic system and business models that are increasingly being perceived as based on greed, inequity and waste.
The alternatives, which we see playing out around the world through a rise in authoritarianism, extreme economic inequity, and crumbling societies are much too frightening.
The industry group also says the proposal would create inequity "between wireless carriers and other providers of messaging services," such as WhatsApp, iMessage and Skype.
Pay inequity has been illegal for almost sixty years, but, at current rates, America will not close the gender pay gap until at least 22017.
It is of vital importance that female sensitivities and world views are promoted and not censored and that we work against inequity in every sphere.
He understood that true investigative journalism gives voice to those oppressed by war, poverty and inequity -- and that such journalism is essential to our freedom.
These calls for equity have a blind spot: The change is supposed to happen within a capitalist system that was founded on slavery, inequity, etc.
Any sign that the tax bill has worsened rather than eased inequity will hand Democrats a stick to thwack Republicans in midterm elections next year.
Critics at the time and since have identified the Selective Service's system of deferments as the main cause of military inequity during the Vietnam War.
But serious challenges remain, including thousands more crumbling buildings and a growing sense of inequity over improvements to some parts of the city over others.
"Even after the last election, with all the attention to rural America, little has been done to correct the inequity so many rural students face."
For that reason, our new training addresses painful moments in American history — and, in particular, law enforcement's role in enforcing laws that perpetuated racial inequity.
But he warned, in the wake of a toxic presidential election, that economic inequity, racism and closed-mindedness threatened to shred the nation's democratic fabric.
Rather, he views affirmative action as a "positive good," a moral necessity and the responsible choice in a society marred by historical race-based inequity.
Congress decided to do something about this glaring inequity for debit card fees in 2010, and passed a law giving banks an incentive to compete.
While this is wonderful news, it has also masked the inequity that this disease is still ravaging certain sectors of our population at alarming rates.
Mark Wahlberg and his talent agency, meanwhile, will donate $225 million to a fund dedicated to fighting pay inequity and harassment of women in Hollywood.
More than 22019 years later, students of color are continuing to call attention to racial injustice and inequity, fueling a growing youth movement against racism.
Speakers at the NYC march touched on issues ranging from climate change and a Green New Deal to sexual harassment, gender inequity, and activism within STEM.
Waksberg said that's because harassment, assault, and inequity unavoidably come up in a writers' room full of industry people talking about how to satirize the industry.
But he had no incentive contemplate the ways that an expression of protest over inequity and respect for the flag can exist without being in conflict.
Employees, regardless of gender, who believed their employer was not addressing inequity were more likely to be looking for a new job in the coming year.
But Stone, who stars in the upcoming musical film "La La Land," alongside Ryan Gosling, added that she has not been personally impacted by pay inequity.
Cecelia O'Neil-Hart: "I believe you," and lean toward believing women, lean toward believing people of color at this company when they say they're experiencing inequity.
Uber is being investigated by the US government's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over concerns about gender inequity at the company, according to The Wall Street Journal.
People who trade in the global system, we know what has to happen here and to satisfy a population's feeling of inequity, globalization hasn't been fair.
And some, like the Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science in Washington, have specifically turned to the method as a way to address inequity.
Back before the French Revolution, conservatives used to defend inequity on the grounds of tradition, religion, or stability; kings and the nobility ruled by divine right.
Until then, pay inequity will be a stark reality for millions of women, and our economy will continue to leave trillions of dollars on the table.
Liberia is privatizing its country's schools: The problem with private education is that it creates inequity, one tier of education for rich and another for poor.
Employers should also investigate the impact of gender compensation inequity and barriers to career advancement and best practices to close these gaps across all practice settings.
"Our legislation rights an inequity — a reciprocal benefit that has been withheld from our European allies with little justification," Hatch said Tuesday on the Senate floor.
So those are things that, you know, the greatest inequity in the world, it's how you lift countries up so they can take care of themselves.
I want people to look at the inequity and injustice, yawning economic inequality and crumbling public schools and injustices in who and how we incarcerate people.
For guidance, she looked to the evolution of the Foundation's early mandate of promoting democracy and human achievement, to a profound commitment to combating global inequity.
"We're overdue for an increase that would boost growth and minimize income inequity," Kate Bahn, an economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, told Vox.
The capital's Women's Voices Theater Festival won't make that kind of noise, but it, too, is a collective display of female force, aimed at righting inequity.
Still, he said the governor had raised an important issue about the inequity in existing bridge tolls — something he has long believed needed to be addressed.
Hurricane Maria did not just damage buildings and infrastructure​ — it was a shock to a system already stressed by economic decline, inequity, emigration and other challenges.
Dr. Otis W. Brawley, the chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, said that the new study pointed to inequity of access and good treatment.
In those spaces, even as they discuss the scourge of poverty, they guarantee that they will never have to look a gross inequity in the eye.
Well you know, the first time I ran for office and actively thought about it was in college, because there was an inequity ... KS: At Spelman.
"The economic inequity that's been created threatens our ability to do the journalism," said Terry Egger, the publisher of Philadelphia Media Network, which owns the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The challenge is to acknowledge and rectify problems we seek to address; systemic racism, sexism, homophobia and inequity are rooted in the decisions of the older generations.
The suit in Mississippi does not expressly target segregation or discrimination, explains Will Bardwell of the SPLC, though race-based inequity is at the heart of it.
The inequity built into the Lyric Theatre's very architecture is a painful reminder of the city's ugly past as one of the most segregated places in America.
Meanwhile, Ray has left the den of inequity that is his home and is back at Shosh's, where things seem to be going just fine — really fine.
The show leads viewers to believe they're watching something poignant that relates to the gender inequity women are hyper aware of following the election of Donald Trump.
The real issue we should be talking about is the inequity in our tax laws that allow big businesses to shift the tax burden onto small firms.
And the inequity fostered not only stifles individual student success, it stunts the growth of a workforce in which the majority of jobs require post-secondary education.
"Such a two-tiered system would foster inequity and unequal treatment in favor of a very small cohort of criminal defendants who are extremely wealthy," he added.
It turns out that this feeling of inequity between the siblings isn't rare: According to a new study from AmeripriseFinancial, some 15% of siblings argue about money.
He is a civil rights attorney and critic of the national security state who has written about the cruelty and inequity of the American criminal justice system.
Reforming the mortgage interest deduction would help address growing income inequality and racial inequity, improve the stability of families and the financial market, and generate significant savings.
Alleviate the various factors that drive violent conflict (inequity, instability, poor governance, widespread corruption, long-standing grievances, and inter-group conflict to name a few) and, 2.
Many museum curators, art dealers, and gallerists have appeased their collector base and their board members, maintaining the systemic inequity that has egregiously favored white male artists.
They aren't just talking about the social issues that affect their world; they are taking a stand for what's right for everyone who faces prejudice and inequity.
Then write an essay, create an oral presentation or make an annotated map on segregation and educational inequity in your community, using data from the Miseducation database.
The annual supreme court report often draws a relatively high number of "no" votes, as some delegates use the opportunity to vent against judicial corruption and inequity.
Mebert said, "In both Mexico and the US, the inequity between companies' and households' access to water is a problem created by industry but allowed by government."
To me, America is about justice, and the inequality and the inequity that she's suffered and been put through has been horrendous to observe as a father.
The actress and activist will urge the world's billionaires and leaders to use their wealth to end extreme poverty, address climate change and reduce inequity by 2030.
Jennifer Rubell isn't using her economic privilege to fight gender inequity; she's using it to sell art that critiques other wealthy women for not doing that either.
But it represents only the most visible inequity in a higher education system that many critics believe now does more to stratify privilege than to expand opportunity.
By paying attention to the science of stress, it is possible to improve the health of all Americans, reduce inequity, and lower the costs of chronic disease.
"I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike" is a seven-minute film that touches on themes of athletic excellence, gender inequity and exploitation.
"It would appear to me that there is a continued inequity of the quality and standards of education provided to children in that shelter," Mr. Carvalho said.
We have had to forgive slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, lynching, inequity in every realm, mass incarceration, voter disenfranchisement, inadequate representation in popular culture, microaggressions and more.
Mark Wahlberg and his talent agency, William Morris Endeavor, will donate $2 million to a fund dedicated to fighting pay inequity and harassment of women in Hollywood.
Kirsten Gillibrand and Cory Booker have said taxes should only benefit the same users who were punished by the U.S.' history of harsh drug laws and racial inequity.
Any sign that the tax bill has worsened rather than eased inequity will hand a stick with which Democrats can thwack Republicans in 2018's mid-term elections.
The inequity perceived in global distribution of wealth is not just unique to emerging countries it's very much in the centrepiece of developing countries and the United States.
"There is evidence that certain procedures are overpriced...and CMS is missing an opportunity to address this inequity," the independent Medicare Payment Advisory Commission wrote in a letter.
One of the big, early applause lines came when he alluded to the long-running controversy over NFL players kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial inequity.
Beyond fairness, there's another compelling reason for Mr. Obama to act on this inequity: It could generate $150 billion in revenue over 10 years, by Mr. Fleischer's estimate.
With widening inequity and runaway rents outpacing many cities' ability to produce more subsidized homes, there is a growing call on the left for government to do more.
The technology giant's disclosure also comes after the Department of Labor attempted to get the company to disclose compensation data of its employees following allegations of pay inequity.
As a practicing OB/GYN, I have worked internationally and locally in underserved areas of the country and have seen the impact of menstrual inequity with my patients.
Players on the team have sued U.S. Soccer, accusing the organization of "institutionalized gender discrimination" including inequity in pay, practice time, practice locations, medical treatment, coaching and travel.
Elizabeth Warren, who represents a state with its own unique rental crisis, brought up racial inequity in U.S. housing policy and how that's created a wider wealth gap.
Bank studies have concluded that reducing gender inequity is good for prosperity and that communities where human rights are violated with impunity are more prone to armed conflict.
These men want complacence and silence, even though we fought for and had friends who died for the right of citizens to speak freely against injustice and inequity.
So I always had left politics, and I was particularly interested as a student in various kinds of inequality — gender inequality, racial inequity, and how they shaped literature.
His own political awakening came later, in college, when he began to see the inequity in students' paths to Stanford and started going by Julián instead of Julian.
Unlike Alakef, City Girl is bold and risky, from its bright-pink logo and packaging to its business plan's central tenet: fighting gender inequity in the coffee industry.
"Before there was an editorial every day lamenting economic inequity, Elizabeth Warren knew that stock prices don't tell a full account of our country's economic story," Kennedy said.
Racial inequity has long plagued our death penalty process, and we know our state has sentenced at least five innocent people to death since 1973 (they were freed).
And he fully understands how their vote for him was in many ways an attempt to rebalance the inequity they saw holding them back — economically, politically and culturally.
We will be reminded of the sad truth that there is greater inequity among Latinas (54 cents to the dollar) and black women (63 cents to the dollar).
On Instagram, you cited a recent study that found that female-led films earn more than ones starring men — and yet pay inequity is still a huge issue.
While some victims may welcome the current compromise, it is clear that the changes fall well short of addressing the fundamental inequity experienced by active-duty service personnel.
At this week's Grammy Awards, there was an impassioned plea from the music industry about the inequity of receiving tiny fraction-of-a-cent payouts for streaming music.
My parents and grandparents did not have to overcome generational inequity sown from centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, housing and loan discrimination, and cultural bias just to achieve success.
What began as my own small way of tackling inequity has turned into my life's mission: empowering women to make the first move in all areas of their lives.
Conservatives would say this is where they have always been, but Sanders' ideas on breaking up banks and tackling inequality, not just inequity, are the stuff of the 1930s.
Beyond the piece bringing to light the injustice that ended the lives of so many young, powerful women, it showcases their strength in the face of inequity and hopelessness.
How do we actually reevaluate gender inequity in this country in a way that seems finally where the inequities seem structurally visible, by some measures, for the first time?
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But a frustrating truth about the Gurley case is that many of its underlying problems are problems of inequity and race that are difficult to solve with city policy.
Modi was awarded one of four 2019 Gates Foundation Goalkeeper awards, given out to individuals "working to tackle the issues contributing to global inequity," as the foundation put it.
"There are more issues of real importance facing Americans than you can count: terrorism, economic stagnation, economic inequity, racism, sexism, the lack of decent public eduction," Mr. Rosenthal says.
In addition to challenging the western canon, Miriam, Joyce and the P&D movement as a whole offered a model of how artists can address inequity aesthetically and institutionally.
Mazurkevich developed the series in conjunction with Current Solutions, an online platform that allows victims of gender inequity, intimate partner violence, and sexual assault, to share their stories safely.
We reiterate the demands of the walkout, and make it clear that meeting these demands for all of us requires: An end to pay and opportunity inequity for TVCs.
That's why Ginsburg's decision to speak about the #MeToo movement and her own experiences with inequity and harassment at the Sundance Film Festival the other day is so important.
Women's debt inequity is compounded by the gender pay gap; college-educated women working full-time earn 26% less than their male peers – and the gap widens over time.
Canada's prime minister, Justin Trudeau, gave a powerful speech in Davos challenging attendees to promote women and address pay inequity, family planning and child care to help women flourish.
But the instinct to run, hide and survive is only one approach to a future that may see social order tumble into chaos as a result of extreme inequity.
"It opens a much wider discussion of what is happening — it goes even beyond the pay, it goes to inequity and it shows talent not being valued," she said.
Amid the protests, Mr. Emanuel pledged to equip all patrol officers with Tasers and body cameras, and he spoke in frank terms about inequity and distrust in the police.
Now a professor and president emeritus at Harvard University, Summers advises businesses and chairs the board of the Center for Global Development, a think tank focused on economic inequity.
Megan Costello is executive director of the Mayor's Office of Women's Advancement, which is working with Boston-area employers to try to reduce pay inequity between women and men.
To the Editor: Gender inequity is not going to fix itself, but I wish I had a dime for every time someone tried to "mansplain" this problem for me.
What will determine whether South Africa can escape the "Zimbabwe complex" is its ability to confront the inequity that was the legacy of the political settlement that ended apartheid.
Today, the industry that produces clothing has, in terms of economic and environmental inequity, more in common with the meatpacking industry than it does with any other cultural product.
The report also hits out at companies for creating an inequity crisis and says business models are increasingly focused on delivering ever-higher returns to wealthy owners and top executives.
Like a jigsaw puzzle, the show fell into place as I meandered through its 250 plus artworks, through the simmering rage directed at state control, social injustices, and gender inequity.
The organization said they viewed the incident as "another example of racial inequity and excessive use of force imposed on communities of color by law enforcement," according to the statement.
Northam's policy team will craft a set of proposals based on the premise that the governor's mistakes made him more acutely aware of the inequity and injustice black Virginians face.
The conversation explored the implementation of the Minneapolis 2040 plan and its multifaceted approach to development, racial inequity in home ownership, and urban-rural divides in access to affordable housing.
Countries are caught in the conflict trap -- where inequity, injustice and exclusion spark violence, violence fuels more violence, devastation spreads, poverty deepens, and the poison of violent extremism takes hold.
He says he decided to use the hashtag because it conveyed his frustrations with the judicial system's failure to protect the black community from violence, systemic inequity and political disenfranchisement.
First, more work — like that of the Southeast Rural Community Assistance Project around education and inequity in access to water infrastructure — is needed is to help identify at-risk communities.
While workers at tech behemoths like Amazon and Microsoft have called on their employers to reduce their carbon footprints, they haven't exactly linked climate change with racial inequity — until now.
The team's 28 players sued U.S. Soccer earlier this year, accusing the organization of "institutionalized gender discrimination" including inequity in pay, practice time, practice locations, medical treatment, coaching and travel.
In March, they filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, accusing it of "institutionalized gender discrimination" including inequity in pay, practice time, practice locations, medical treatment, coaching and travel.
His attempt at racial and gender diversity among his interviewees is laudable, though it would have been nice if he'd also explored how issues of inequity still shape the market.
When the two women worked together on "Lean In," Scovell was overjoyed to find an outlet for her frustration — finally, here was data to back up her sense of inequity!
It is damn hard to expand the limits of our empathy when our emotional attention is already stretched too thin in a world run through with inequity, strife and suffering.
At Maret, he takes a class called Mapping Inequity in D.C. Six-foot-eight and possibly still growing, he models himself after the retired San Antonio Spurs star Tim Duncan.
CAPE is not merely timely, but necessary — if it indeed is able to address racial inequity and the serrated history that has made Mississippi what it is in this moment.
And as successive layers of street maps are projected onscreen, the relationship between infestation and economic inequity is clear: Rats thrive, according to Mr. Edmond, where people have no dreams.
If a company chooses to conduct a pay audit and finds levels of discrimination, they will have three years to fix it before they can be sued over the inequity.
The City Council agrees that the state bears some responsibility but believes that the city should also do something to redress what is clearly a grave inequity in transportation policy.
Partners at Chadbourne & Parke voted on Thursday to remove Kerrie L. Campbell, a female partner who filed a gender discrimination and pay inequity lawsuit against the firm, from the partnership.
People of color and women in the film industry constantly contend with being undermined and under-recognized, the persistently exclusionary Oscar nominations being only one example of this rampant inequity.
That's because the pay gap will persist until companies examine the inequity embedded in their practices and make the changes necessary to build a more equitable, diverse and just workforce.
In fact, at this week's Grammy Awards, there was an impassioned plea from the music industry about the inequity of receiving tiny fraction-of-a-cent payouts for streaming music.
Our work is driven by a deep love for our community and the fundamental belief that fighting against racial and economic inequity is central to our cultural and art making process.
And in a world where women still face gender discrimination and pay inequity in the traditioanl workplace, that's a good question to ask yourself if you're afraid to take the plunge.
But past unknowability does not excuse present inequity, and the residents of every country should see at least a portion of the profits from the licensing of their top-level domains.
The SEC's action is a vital early step in fixing this inequity and providing similar opportunity to all of our country's retirement savers and improving our collective long-term financial security.
Google "will recommit" to "diversity, equity, and inclusion again in 2019, according to Pichai," which could address the employee demand that Google have a commitment to end pay and opportunity inequity.
The Chief Operations Officer of Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity, Robyn Bipes-Timm discussed the history of racial inequity in housing policy and the need to make significant progress in development.
The inequity they describe in a study published last year in New Media & Society can easily be compounded as it spreads to industries like professional sports, which already often devalues femininity.
In a final and more personal statement, Justice Sotomayor drew a link between the court's extreme deference to law enforcement officials and the racial inequity that pervades America's criminal justice system.
Administration officials stressed that the money will be targeted toward helping racial and gender inequity within education, which they hope translates into fixing Silicon Valley's "enormous problem" in gender wage gaps.
To act affirmatively was to acknowledge the history of denigration and inequity that continued to define black life, and to come up with ways in which the future could be different.
And that's a global problem because we lack proper oversight over the community standards of all major companies, letting those without proper training, oversight or awareness of structural inequity moderate speech.
The imminent automation of the workforce worldwide is a topic of increasingly frequent discussion, as are concerns about access to jobs, goods, and services during a time of widening socioeconomic inequity.
Because affirmative action is one of the nation's few proactive responses to racial inequity, the way we think and talk about it affects the way we think about racial justice generally.
"For so long there's been this inequity of, if you could afford to send your children to pre-K they got a leg up," said the Queens borough president, Melinda Katz.
After serving as vehicles for a mass statement on sexual harassment and pay inequity, some of the black dresses and tuxedos of the Golden Globes are ready for their second act.
"There's job inequity for the LGBTQ set, especially ones who aren't deemed visually acceptable by cis straight people: The genderqueer folks who play with both masculine and feminine styles," Palladino noted.
Assuming no one else has plants on the roof, the sign points to an inequity, reminding everyone that this shareholder has usurped a part of the common area for personal use.
"Any effort to end homelessness in the United States must address the range of issues that have resulted from racial inequity," the National Alliance to End Homelessness says on its website.
"It has never been like this before, this kind of disbalance and inequity," says Mr. Jeremic, a former foreign minister, who says he almost exclusively uses social media to reach voters.
At Spelman College, there was an inequity in the distribution of two-ply and one-ply toilet paper, which to me was emblematic of a larger set of social dignity issues.
Hendricks appeared in a 2014 "Funny or Die" video that features her character from "Mad Men" in a modern office, citing present-day pay inequity statistics for her fictional co-workers.
It just never occurred to me that this was an inequity, and I think that has to do with a bigger dialogue around the church and the world and how they interact.
Rejection at home, barriers to education, and employment inequity all contribute to a reality where trans people are pushed to the margins of society, and literally on the street, leaving them vulnerable.
But when you work a union job, where pay is determined by seniority, most of that inequity is erased: Statistically, women in construction earn 96 percent as much as their male counterparts.
But through the lens of lead prosecutor Marcia Clark (brilliantly played by Sarah Paulson, TV's reigning chameleon), we see another inequity playing out: rampant sexism, and the world's blind eye to it.
"This is the same historical inequity we have always seen," said Dr. Munro, who has a Ph.D. in computational linguistics and previously oversaw natural language and translation technology at Amazon Web Services.
By capping the number of days a residence, condo or apartment can be rented, we can assure common sense and protection of our neighborhoods from the inching danger of blight and inequity.
Defying calls to resign by the Democratic caucuses in the House of Delegates and State Senate in February, the governor vowed to dedicate the rest of his term to fighting racial inequity.
He added that the migration trend was "driven by poverty and inequality and inequity, and unless you deal with those root causes, you're not going to stop that huge flow of people."
The team's 28 players sued the U.S. Soccer Federation earlier this year, accusing the organization of "institutionalized gender discrimination" including inequity in pay, practice time, practice locations, medical treatment, coaching and travel.
Perceptions of pay inequity are widespread here: Only 40 percent of women and 75 percent of men agree that the genders working at the same level are paid equally at their companies.
To help rectify that inequity, I decided to spend an entire day, from waking to sleeping, exploring the depths of Netflix in an effort to find the worst movie on the service.
Such data must include, but not be limited limited to: information on relative promotion rates, under-leveling at hire, the handling of leaves, and inequity in project and job ladder change opportunities.
These three powerful authors push the edge of comfort in their latest works — presenting the loveliness that the best childhood moments hold alongside the realities of inequity, profound loss and deep neglect.
As a response, Mr. Wahlberg and his talent agency donated $2 million in the name of Ms. Williams to a fund dedicated to fighting pay inequity and harassment of women in Hollywood.
By the time I was in my early 20s, a recovering missionary's daughter, all the questions that I couldn't answer about that experience — about privilege, inequity, failure, strength, sorrow, beauty — felt suffocating.
The performance was perfect, as the lyrics seemed to reflect Mr. Batiste's inherent optimism, while his contemplative execution communicated the musician's awareness of social inequity that permeated the Armstrong era and beyond.
They typically begin after an employee reports to a company hotline, human resources or a company official that she or he has been harassed, assaulted or suffered some other inequity at work.
The company said the study did not address broader issues of gender inequity, and that it also needed to weigh factors like whether newly hired employees were assigned to appropriate pay levels.
The company says that it was about to make changes this year that would have compensated many men less than women in a certain job category, so it headed off that inequity.
This inequity affects those who live on the grid as well, including Lex Helbling, 29, a farmer who was forced out of a deal to purchase her rented farm from her landlord.
It has caused burnout, unhappiness and gender inequity, as people struggle to find time for children or passions or pets or any sort of life besides what they do for a paycheck.
Like black comics he grew up idolizing, including Dave Chappelle and Richard Pryor, Mr. Davis, 33, said he believes comedy is a useful tool to address issues of racial inequity and division.
People whine about the inequity of players building superteams, but owners and the smarter G.M.s, like Red Auerbach and Jerry West, were celebrated when they did it and built the best dynasties.
National Women's Law Center  The National Women's Law Center, which houses the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund, uses legal battles to drive solutions to gender inequity and to fight for gender justice.
The Caring for our Veterans Act would also finally correct the inequity in VA's Comprehensive Caregiver Assistance Program which today is available only to caregivers of veterans injured on or after Sept.
Brady Kemp, a shop steward and 20173-year UPS employee, accused his supervisors of concocting reasons to discipline him and justify his firing after he complained of racial inequity at the company.
Ross, speaking to reporters after the speech, said that Trump was merely pointing out an export tax inequity between the United States and many other countries, not specifying how it should be remedied.
Gender inequity, immigration, imperialism and the politics of location, failed utopias, hegemonic interventions, and postcolonial trauma are all represented through multi-media works which defamiliarize language and creatively generate dialogue with the viewer.
Her district is the second-poorest in the country, she says, so her focus will be on the concerns of her constituents, in particular their civil rights and the ravages of economic inequity.
Therein lies a third layer of inequity: the policy applies only to inhabitants of villages in the New Territories, a largely rural district of Hong Kong, much of which borders on Guangdong province.
To honor that legacy, the campaign encourages people to engage in constructive, calm, 90-minute conversations with friends or family members who hold opposing views on issues ranging from Islamophobia to income inequity.
In a move aimed to compensate for the growing inequity, both ride-hailing companies recently announced different plans to offer their contract drivers variations of cash bonuses and stock options upon going public.
But, the reality is that, much like the fossil fuel industry, pollution, racial inequity and economic distress are pervasive across the rural South where industrial logging and large wood manufacturing facilities are concentrated.
Four members of Congress have requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct a new review of gender pay inequity in the federal workforce, including the implications of race and ethnicity on pay.
Although bipartisan legislation to extend the program to caregivers of veterans of all eras has been introduced in both the House and Senate, Congress has yet to take action to correct this inequity.
But rather than addressing each of the five demands, which included a commitment to ending pay inequity and the appointment of an employee representative to the company's board, Pichai's note largely ignored them.
In her book, "Periods Gone Public: Taking A Stand For Menstrual Equity," Weiss Wolf raises awareness to "period inequity" and her advocacy toward "tampon tax" and how it impacts "period poverty" as well.
A number of other demands have yet to be met, including a commitment to end pay and opportunity inequity, and a call for Google's chief diversity officer to report directly to the CEO.
In a phone interview on Thursday, Okung said he wrote the letter as a way to move players' focus away from the president's agenda and back toward their own goals of addressing inequity.
In recent months, at least 403 presidential candidates have thrown their support behind studying reparations, noting that the federal government greatly benefited from slavery and then allowed policy to entrench inequity over generations.
As a practicing pediatrician who has committed his life to reducing inequity in maternal and child health in the U.S. and globally, I know these deaths are unacceptable because they are largely preventable.
It is tragic that children die of preventable causes every day, and the fact that this happens at a higher rate in some regions than others warrants an effort to address the inequity.
While it is not possible to know whether race is a factor in any particular parole decision, a pattern of racial inequity is clear when the data are examined on a large scale.
Exasperated over the years by white women's lack of recognition of the deeper inequity in black women's lives, she said that the January protest was an education for her in working with others.
Such a system fuels a glaring inequity: Already privileged students are able to access prestigious opportunities that open doors to competitive jobs, leaving their peers who cannot afford to work for free behind.
Now, to drive home this inequity, Kiel and his colleague Hannah Fresques have released a follow-up report, putting together a map of every county in the US by income tax audit rate.
A bill introduced on behalf of the task force to address gender wage inequity made it out of committee in the 2019 legislative session, representing the first time this has happened during his governorship.
Following the protest, Google eliminated a requirement for binding arbitration in cases of harassment and discrimination claims, pledged to end pay inequity, and pledged to revamp the process employees use to report sexual misconduct.
Bernie Sanders has insisted that he didn't know about the multiple claims of women within his 2016 campaign infrastructure who complained about sexual harassment as well pay inequity, according to New York Times reporting.
"We have all seen the [rankings] ... and we are well aware of our history of slavery, segregation and inequity along racial lines," wrote Nyandoro in an op-ed for the Jackson-based Clarion Ledger.
In my classes, I'd become obsessed with housing in America, a market so fraught with inequity that it's not uncommon for people living in poverty to spend more than half their income on rent.
Highlighting the inequity of the recovery, which has been exacerbated by the Trump administration's tax cuts and deregulatory efforts, could be as successful for Democrats in 2020 as it was for Trump in 2016.
After nearly three years of litigation, Judge Eugene W. Reese of the Alabama Circuit Court found the inequitable funding unconstitutional and ordered the state to come up with a system to remedy the inequity.
"All of the accounts of what happened to me and my family over the years are enormous in scale and historically rooted in a legacy of white supremacy, misogyny and inequity," Morris said Monday.
"There is real serious inequity between the experience of people who live in urban areas or who are affluent, and people who live in rural areas and don't have as much money," Bellamak said.
It was clear that she wasn't reading this to me because the angle was compelling and the language hypnotic, but because Miller had put words to an inequity my partner felt in our relationship.
For nearly five decades WIF has worked to combat inequity in entertainment and we will continue to innovate new ways to ensure safety, and bring about parity in all areas of the screen industries.
Bloomberg really fell short in demonstrating an understanding of issues like inequity and gender power dynamics within institutions, said Kelly Dittmar, a scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
The researchers point out that the law could contribute to inequity between socio-economic groups, since people with higher incomes can afford to pay for more expensive services that don't profit from user data.
Most of the inequity in smoking rates - 56 percent of the total variation - occurred between different census tracts within the nation's largest cities, and just 44 percent occurred between different cities, the analysis found.
As such, Harris is less of a martyr to inequity than someone who made a strategic decision to regain control of the remainder of her political career, which, by all measures, should be enduring.
This case is evidence of the central inequity around abortion: It is easy for women with means to get an abortion, while poor women are at the mercy of statutes that restrict their rights.
Discussions of pay inequity have recently circled around the internet, but the transparency and surprising equity between GoT's primary characters is impressive, especially given the significant pay gaps between some women and men in Hollywood.
But the development also masks a deeper inequity: While previous mayors have focused on invigorating downtown and the mostly white east side, many of Montgomery's predominantly Black neighborhoods, concentrated in the city's west, are languishing.
For their part, the Republicans who control the House and Senate have announced no plans to act on legislation addressing pay inequity, even though a few GOP lawmakers are pushing bills on the issue. Sen.
While oversimplified, their message is as follows: The system is rigged; you, the voters are getting hosed; and, I'm going to make someone else pay to solve the inequity and crony capitalism in our system.
We urge members of Congress to correct the inequity in the existing program that leaves family caregivers and veterans injured during World War II and the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf Wars ineligible for critical support.
The organizers of the Women's March recently held a Convention to delve more deeply into questions about how we address the growing threat and the legacy of patriarchy and structural inequity that shapes our future.
The double standard that Congress practices, mandating firms to collect demographic data on their employees but exempting this rule for lawmakers themselves, is a key way that racial inequity is produced in the legislative workplace.
The release of the watchdog report put numbers to cross-institution questions about gender representation during a time of heightened attention to inequity, and bolstered concerns about discrimination and harassment at marquee law enforcement agencies.
"While Mayor de Blasio uses this victory parade to grab attention for his presidential run and advocate against pay inequality, the first responders of FDNY EMS are victims of that same inequity," the unions said.
"I really believe that if we don't conquer racial inequity in my lifetime, it may be the thing that unravels the American project in my lifetime," Buttigieg told The Atlantic in an interview published Monday.
My hunch is that we will likewise look back and conclude that today's calls for racial justice, if anything, understate the problem — and that white America, however well meaning, is astonishingly oblivious to pervasive inequity.
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, public focus has shifted to the struggles of women in the workplace, including the pernicious problem of pay inequity—and most Americans agree something needs to be done.
A recent example of this inequity is the Chapter 11 filings of several major coal companies, legal maneuverings that may allow them to evade the millions needed to clean up the devastation they've left behind.
"This issue won't be solved overnight," the report says, "but with both sides working together, we'll be on a path toward closing the gap and making inequity in the workplace a thing of the past."
I've written before, here and here, about the insidious "tribal" bias that drives much of the galling inequity between the U.S. military's "regular" active component and its reserve components — the National Guard and the Reserve.
Tina Tchen, the former chief of staff to Michelle Obama and now President and CEO of Time's Up, described Weinstein's upcoming trial as a pinnacle for the movement against gender inequity and abuse of power.
But as long as mothers, and not fathers, are the ones using policies like paid leave and taking on the additional work at home after having children, the lifetime pay inequity seems certain to remain.
This inequity in Arizona is a "real problem" and a "chief concern" of the state's newly elected Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman, said public information officer Stefan Swiat of the Arizona Department of Education.
" Next year, the commission is scheduled to go deeper, the report said, and will seek out language that appears to be race-neutral or nondiscriminatory, but has "the effect of perpetuating discrimination and racial inequity.
Economic inequity doesn't justify the kind of behavior Arrington is accused of, but at the same time, how can you expect people to behave ethically when there seem to be such strong incentives not to?
Parasite is a parable of social inequity, an often hilarious but very angry story about how the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and everyone sucks the lifeblood from one another in the process.
I saw firsthand how colleges and well-intentioned parents alike can play a crucial role in perpetuating inequity in higher education by prioritizing the acceptance of white, wealthy, and male students to meet their bottom line.
I admire the artists included in the exhibition and their work, and hope that my action can contribute to the global momentum to protest inequity, occupation, labour extraction and disenfranchisement, and to see, together, better days.
Between the steady stream of messages we've received from our public officials and the even harsher realities (finally) exposed by the #MeToo movement, we've spent much of the past year fixing problems of prejudice and inequity.
After her job with Obama, Tchen, who is a lawyer and specializes in advising on gender inequity, sexual harassment, and lack of diversity, has been at work helping to establish the Time's Up legal defense fund.
The festival's nearly two-week run was filled with protests and pledges regarding the festival's history of gender inequity and sexual harassment, as well as programming that seemed poised to critique every sort of ideological oppression.
Judge Richard M. Berman of Federal District Court said that if he were to approve Mr. Zarrab's special bail conditions, it would have helped to "foster inequity and unequal treatment" in favor of "extremely wealthy" defendants.
Do such roundups — several are scheduled at American museums in the year ahead — help correct the gender inequity of the art world, which is very real (look at auction figures and exhibition schedules), or perpetuate it?
In addition to correcting what its members see as a glaring inequity in the tax code, the coalition hopes to generate revenue that could be spent on public investments in areas like schools and economic development.
The proposal drew backlash from trade groups and wireless carriers, who said that it would be akin to placing a tax on conversations and could have created inequity between wireless carriers and messaging apps like WhatsApp.
Of course, if that's trained on past convictions, then the entire inequity of those convictions and of that system is going to be training that AI. That's just going to perpetuate those problems into the future.
In competitive contests in well-off districts, Democratic candidates criticize Mr. Trump and Republicans about the rising costs of housing and health care as well as the inequity and long-term costs of the tax cuts.
Brazil's 3%, a dystopian Netflix original series in the vein of The Hunger Games, not only appeals to sci-fi fans but also tickles anxieties about extreme inequity and the impending apocalypse that ring pretty universal.
They set ambitious goals: addressing racial inequity in the industry; clearing past criminal records for minor drug offenses; and keeping taxes low enough to wipe out the black market, but high enough to generate meaningful revenue.
That inequity has become a theme of a wide range of employment issues across Silicon Valley of late, including the phenomenon of "underleveling" — hiring women and people of color at a lower level than they deserve.
In a charged cultural moment in which women run for and win office, demonstrate against inequity and speak out against the everyday violence they face, writing the most prominent female superhero in the canon carries weight.
Mr. Northam then pledged to dedicate the remainder of his term to focusing on issues of inequity, a vow that members of the state's Legislative Black Caucus said he has so far showed signs of honoring.
The opposition accused the government of trying to undermine grass-roots democracy by gerrymandering local voting districts in a separate action, while Attorney General Basil Williams accused the opposition of "inequity for 23 years" in power.
"This is one of those issues that is nonpartisan," said Skinner, whose bill drew support from Republicans in part because they saw a reliance on the markets to resolve what they perceived as a stark inequity.
In an excerpt from remarks he plans to deliver on Friday evening, Mr. Johnson cast Brexit as not just a unifying force, but also a remedy for generations of economic inequity between Britain's north and south.
The state legislature is a testimony to what many who study gender inequity in politics theorize to be true: Increased gender representation directly translates into better consideration of women in the drafting of law and policy.
But Alan Rupe, an attorney representing four public school districts that sued the state, said the new law does not remedy the inequity problem and that he will ask the supreme court to review the law.
"We can finally ensure women earn the wages they deserve by forcing companies to step up, holding them accountable when they don't, and committing as a nation to ending pay inequity once and for all," Harris said.
The thing that strikes me about this is in your letter, in your work, in what you're doing, you are fundamentally trying to reduce inequity of distribution whether it's health care, whether it's education, whether it's toilets.
The actor has seen success in Hollywood over the past decade and a half, but not without coming up against the difficulties that come with working in the entertainment industry, especially when it comes to pay inequity.
Other requests included a commitment to end pay and opportunity inequity, a publicly disclosed sexual harassment transparency report, a clear process for reporting sexual misconduct, and elevating the company's chief diversity officer to answer to the CEO.
For a company with totally unremarkable diversity numbers, Google is weirdly nonspecific about how it addresses pay inequity in the post, saying both that it doesn't underpay women, but won't support having a third-party certify that.
The people really do care -- if he has benefited from the many tax breaks afforded to the rich, his gains would reflect a fundamental inequity in the American tax system and a driver for the weekend march.
The ruling has unleashed a flood of hard-to-trace campaign donations into the system, and Democrats aim to highlight that inequity in the system right out of the gates in 2018 when they pass H.R. 1.
The ruling has unleashed a flood of hard-to-trace campaign donations into the system, and Democrats aim to highlight that inequity in the system right out of the gates in 63 when they pass H.R. 1.
The anticipated happy ending and reconciliation between Nick and Rachel insinuate that, regardless of socioeconomic inequity, the couple's love and shared cultural interests (often expressed through the enjoyment of food) are enough to unite their disparate worlds.
The political attacks on access to reproductive health in Texas, Ohio and across the country are undoing decades of work by public health advocates to address longstanding health-care inequity for people of color in this country.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether gender inequity in U.S. immigration law over granting citizenship to children born abroad to unwed American-citizen parents - favoring mothers over fathers - violates the U.S. Constitution.
Racial inequity in the criminal justice system has become a hot-button issue in the Democratic presidential primary, with several candidates pointing to disparities in drug arrests as evidence that marijuana laws and other statutes should change.
Maybe what's behind the inequity isn't just a lack of opportunity, but a lack of confidence, an inability among women, or just me, to step up and say My work matters, and to really, truly believe it.
Leyland got a meeting with Wimbledon officials and told them, "I love your championship, I love your tradition, but this gender inequity is one tradition that you need to change," Leyland said Wednesday in a telephone interview.
Source: 2017 American Communities Survey By The New York Times It's time to fix this inequity and to make Washington and Puerto Rico the 51st and 52nd states, with full representation in the Senate and the House.
In a podcast I did this week with six of the organizers of the Google walkout to protest sexual harassment policies and pay inequity, one of them, Stephanie Parker, described her situation compared to similarly qualified men.
"Some recordings more clearly highlight the inequity of the laws, and 'Respect' is one of the best examples," said Mitch Glazier, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America, a trade group representing the major labels.
He ran on a platform centered on housing inequity in a string of neighborhoods that includes Crown Heights, where some of the fiercest gentrification battles in the city are unfolding, and he lost by roughly 1,000 votes.
This inequity gets memorialized not only when a woman starts a job but also when she switches jobs because until now employers were able to ask prospective employees how much they have been paid in the past.
Partners at the law firm Chadbourne & Parke, in an unusual public gesture, voted on Thursday to expel from its ranks a female partner who filed a gender discrimination and pay inequity lawsuit against the firm last year.
I want to be a mother, and I want to build a better world for other trans people, and I want to tear down the structures that hold too many of us humans in bonds of inequity.
Instead, it's simply pointing out that black people's lives are relatively undervalued in the US — and more likely to be ended by police — and the country needs to recognize that inequity to bring an end to it.
And female players are speaking up, on social media and on TV. Skylar Diggins-Smith, the W.N.B.A. All-Star who plays guard for the Dallas Wings, recently appeared in a commercial to raise awareness about pay inequity.
It's not just about the melting ice caps or rising sea levels; it's about solving the fundamental inequity that the people who contributed least to climate change stand to suffer the most — the young, the poor, the marginalized.
And third, that if we get it right, you don't have to be somebody who is on the wrong side of a racial inequity to be better off for living in a country that did something about it.
The order, along with another naming the state's first-ever surgeon general, marks a fast start for a governor who has vowed to combat inequity and position California as a counterweight to the conservative Trump administration in Washington.
And I think when we say, an end to pay inequity, again to echo Erica's point, it's not just about salaries, it's also about bonuses and staff benefits, but it's also about under-leveling ... Yeah, talk about that.
It was inspiring because it felt that we were doing something that had never been done before, and might actually help effect change in an industry that has been stubborn to change when it comes to gender inequity.
For women of color, poor women and marginalized women, of course, the Trump election was not a wake up call, but rather a glaring culmination of the racism, misogyny, inequity and injustice that we live with every day.
As in California and New York, the suit is likely to be fought fiercely by teachers' unions and other groups that say teacher job protections do not cause educational inequity or lead to underperformers remaining in the classroom.
This sharp increase comes as little surprise considering, in just this year alone, the many challenges that black students and black communities have encountered, from students protesting against racial inequity across American colleges and universities to police killings.
"It's the beginning to an end of arrogance, intolerance, inequity and injustice," said Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal and leader of the regional Trinamool Congress (which isn't related to the Congress Party) at the rally.
Natalie Portman's introduction to the best director award announcement — "Here are the all-male nominees" — became a viral moment, and Time's Up, a movement founded to fight sexual harassment and inequity, burst onto the scene in full force.
The budget includes a $1 billion increase in education funding — but advocates said state leaders yet again failed to address the inequity in funding to New York City districts, the subject of a 20-year-plus court battle.
THE HOSTDanny Meyer opened the Union Square Cafe in 1985, when Union Square was derelict; he brought good food to museums and stadiums and founded the fine-casual Shake Shack chain and eliminating tipping to address pay inequity.
What better investment can we make than engaging — calmly and with personal examples — with our (slightly sexist) father, for instance, about the brute inequity of our sister's earning less money than a guy who does the same job?
El-Haddad questions the "feel-good, hummus-kumbaya narrative" of bringing together Palestinian and Israeli chefs without addressing the underlying inequity between them, arguing that such gestures are mere optics because the situation on the ground doesn't change.
Lisbon city hall officials envisioned this and other "libraries of the future" as a way to directly connect with locals, address illiteracy, and tackle inequity, but the library team says many residents saw it differently: just another imposition.
I acknowledge that there is tremendous inequity in the industry, about who gets attention for writing what books… I'm aware that in the court of public opinion on my ethnicity at this point I am the white lady.
Nine state attorneys general also filed a protest to the cy pres-only Street View settlement in an amicus brief that argues the deal is a "stark" illustration of the inequity of these deals for absent class members.
The approval of the California measure, which is scheduled to take effect in 2023, inspired a scramble across the country to follow suit, whether to remedy an inequity or simply to block California from gaining a future advantage.
In June, for example, another New York judge rejected such a request from a Turkish gold trader, saying the proposal helped to "foster inequity and unequal treatment in favor of a very small cohort" of extremely wealthy defendants.
The policy impact of the civil rights movement was to ban discrimination, and the cultural impact was to create the rhetoric of colorblindness that pervades our reaction to anything that offers to ameliorate racial inequity: reparations, affirmative action.
When it comes to paid leave, the inequity among corporate workers and hourly workers is closing at some companies, but it remains stagnant at other large companies (most notably, UPS which offers no paid leave to its hourly workers).
The alliance is trying to impose a large tax, reduce inequity, protect unions, fund worker transition, clean up local pollution, and subsidize clean energy, all in a stroke, piling political problems atop political problems, guaranteeing massive, multi-sectoral opposition.
The bill would correct this inequity by requiring these individuals to begin paying the Social Security tax again on income over $400,000, and by gradually filling the gap so that eventually everyone paid the tax on all their income.
" DiAngelo argues that when confronted with their racial identity and its implications, even progressive whites "often opt to protect what they perceive as their moral reputation, rather than recognize or change their participation in systems of inequity or domination.
That's why, as a Republican and Democrat, we agree that to effect real change, educators and lawmakers alike must tackle the racial and income inequity that hinders individual student success and undermines the economic strength of our broader society.
Williams, who has worked to create a boundary of protection for her family's private life, said she decided to open up about her relationship -- and experiences with pay inequity in Hollywood -- on the possibility it could help other women.
All 28 players on the U.S. women's soccer team filed a lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation on International Women's Day, alleging "institutionalized gender discrimination" including inequity in pay, practice time, practice locations, medical treatment, coaching and travel.
And Mr. de Blasio has been resolute in his opposition to congestion pricing as a way to finance much-needed mass transit improvements, frustrating many progressive advocates who see his position as inconsistent with his goal of narrowing inequity.
I got an excruciating, front-row seat on the sport's gender inequity during my 20s, when I was one of the best female climbers in the world and was married to Tommy Caldwell, one of the strongest male climbers.
Pope adopts these same tools of nostalgia and fandom to effectively showcase an interesting duality of the exhibition: the tension between sports' distinct ability to distract from prejudice and inequity while simultaneously being the very motor for their enactment.
Kaepernick, who led San Francisco to the Super Bowl in 2013, began kneeling during the playing of the national anthem in 2016 to protest police brutality and social and economic inequity among people of color in the United States.
The nature of the questions has changed little since the anonymous American collective started to challenge the art world's inequity in the 1980s, reporting to the public facts and numbers about the domination of white male artists in the art world.
A naïve analysis would highlight the fact that these trustees are also major donors to de Blasio, and that de Blasio has taken huge amounts of real estate money — an industry invested in increasing property and land values, which drives inequity.
With #MeToo making headlines day in and day out, it can be easy to gloss over the fact that it remains excruciatingly intimidating to speak up about gender inequity, harassment, and mistreatment, especially when it comes to vocalizing concerns at work.
Kamala Harris, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, is proposing that large employers pay women on an equal basis with their male counterparts or face government fines, seeking a sweeping shift in the way the nation addresses pay inequity.
"People like to believe we are better than other countries and problems like violence against women and child marriage and forced marriage and pay inequity and all kinds of problems that happen in developing countries don't happen here," she said.
"In the end, the apples and oranges of film competition, and the inequity of advertising budgets has always left the Academy Awards with some inevitable aftertaste of the alcohol most of us have to drink to get through them," he wrote.
"As we approach the awards show weekend, we are receiving more questions about SAG-AFTRA's efforts to address the issue of harassment and inequity in our industry," President Gabrielle Carteris and national executive director David White previously said in a message.
"There's obviously an enormous amount of work still to be done, but we feel that the best way to address gender inequity in film and television is to support emerging talent – writers, directors, and producers – all year long," Welsh continued.
For years our nation has lagged: More than 177 countries offer guaranteed paid family leave, but not the United States; one study a few years ago found that child care costs more than college; and pay inequity puts families in poverty.
Our current laws and structure and Constitution and other things, these things that were the basis, the foundation of our current legal system today, were created during slavery, were created during a time of gross, ugly inequity of the highest magnitude.
In the U.S., people are donating their vacation days so co-workers can have a decent maternity leave, in addition to facing pay inequity, workplace harassment, and minimum wages that don't stack up against an increasingly rising cost of living.
I've seen, of late, a tendency for young, intelligent men (and sometimes women, although this is primarily a male phenomenon) to fight back against the inequity of the startup ecosystem by joining political movements that are far right of Libertarianism.
Respondents are asked whether African Americans ought to be able to lift themselves up by their bootstraps despite social challenges, whether they lack initiative, whether discrimination is responsible for racial inequity, and whether blacks are more hardworking, or less, than whites.
The protestors had five key asks, including an end to forced arbitration in cases of harassment and discrimination, a commitment to end pay and opportunity inequity and a clear, uniform, globally inclusive process for reporting sexual misconduct safely and anonymously.
They already make a version of this argument whenever Social Security and Medicare are threatened, but this argument also can be used to highlight the inequity that has deepened under Trump—and how austerity increases economic inequality and hampers growth.
Given the reach of AI and its significant life-altering implications – particularly when the civil liberties and freedoms of individuals are at stake – we must address the complex issues the technology presents, including mitigating bias, inequity, and other potential harms.
Moreover, if test scores aren't where we want them, policymakers often blame teachers — an easy scapegoat rather than addressing the real problems of poverty and social inequity that certainly impact student learning and reach far beyond the control of teachers.
Fabric has, somewhat conveniently, been painted by a sub-committee as a kind of nefarious den of inequity stuffed to the gills with shambling, stumbling teenagers who've filled their boots—literally—with MDMA, while security and staff turn a blind eye.
And yet, even though we doctors are committed to caring for our patients and their well-being, when presented with such clear evidence of healthcare inequity most of us shrug our shoulders and say that there's little we can do.
Conversations often turn to the inequity in the criminal justice system, and outrage over cases like the death of Layleen Polanco, a transgender woman who had been jailed on Rikers Island because she could not afford bail on misdemeanor assault charges.
Here are some factors from Gina Chon of Breakingviews to measure the policy's success: Inequality: Any sign that the tax bill has worsened rather than eased inequity will hand Democrats a stick to thwack Republicans in 2018's midterm elections.
Now, because so much of the book's plot speaks toward economic inequities, toward the deep inequity in the U.S. health care system, we're now talking about how uncomfortably relatable the book has become to many more people due to Covid-19.
Now, because so much of the book's plot speaks toward economic inequities, toward the deep inequity in the U.S. health care system, we're now talking about how uncomfortably relatable the book has become to many more people due to Covid-19.
Black and Latino students pay the price most heavily, according to a class-action lawsuit filed last week in State Supreme Court that says racial inequity in the sports programs of the public schools violates the city's human rights law.
About 10,000 Citi Bikes are deployed from docking stations concentrated in Manhattan and Brooklyn, with some stations in Queens and none in the Bronx and Staten Island, leading to charges of inequity and favoritism by some local officials and residents.
What followed was 100 years of Jim Crow segregation and a still-insidious culture of widespread, systemic racism — resulting in a significant wealth gap between Black and white Americans, redlined neighborhoods, segregated schools, pay inequity, police brutality, mass incarceration and more.
And yet as a young, inexperienced teacher, many days I felt like an accomplice to a large-scale crime, all too aware of the inequity playing out around me but also the limitations of what I could do to combat it.
A study about equity in access to health care for 27.7 countries in 2000 revealed that the United States had the highest degree of inequity in doctor use, even higher than Mexico — which is both poorer and generally more inequitable.
A Word With Whether lambasting racial inequity with his trademark eccentricity, or putting on a Jheri curl wig for a now-legendary parody of Rick James, Dave Chappelle has long been considered one of the most exciting stand-ups in comedy.
Campaigners insist it's not just about the melting ice caps or rising sea levels; it's about solving the fundamental inequity that the people who contributed least to climate change stand to suffer the most — the young, the poor, the marginalized.
But unlike not disclosing what's in your savings account or your 401(k), there are direct, concrete consequences for falling victim to salary secrecy, including wage suppression and a lack of transparency around pay inequity, which disproportionately affects women and minorities.
Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area highlights artworks that attempt to make visible the crippling inequity of wealth distribution, racial displacement, and growing gap between the moneyed elite and, increasingly, everybody else in the Bay Area.
But the conflict will rage on for at least a couple of episodes, digging into the inequity between the scrappy Cloud 9 employees trying to make incremental change and the calculating corporate bosses trying to squash the protest before it goes any further.
The six women who are competing for the 2020 Democratic nomination have also highlighted the ascendant power of female voters -- crafting plans that would offer greater assistance with childcare, eliminate pay inequity or address racial disparities in health care, including maternal mortality.
"In her book, Melinda tells the stories of the inspiring people she's met through her work all over the world, digs into the data, and powerfully illustrates issues that need our attention — from child marriage to gender inequity in the workplace," Obama writes.
"For more than a decade," the Copyright Alliance wrote in a May statement, "individual creators and small businesses have been advocating for a change in the copyright law to address an inequity that has routinely provided them with rights but no remedies."
With their teacher and school principal riding shotgun, a group of predominantly Latino eleventh graders were yielding their planned focus on "The Great Gatsby" to meet with myself and leaders in their community to discuss matters related to social inequity in America.
We can fundamentally change the nature and power dynamics of the workplace, though hiring decisions, by urging our bosses to change policies, by getting organized with other women in our industries to shift from passively accepting inequity to engaging in workplace activism.
Women are fighting back by using new tools to make inequity more transparent, bringing the discrimination to the attention of the ACLU and EEOC, and hiring each other whenever possible, to get around the old-boys network that still dominates the industry.
The approach fits into the tradition of exploitation films that use genre movies to comment on current events, much in the way George Romero used his many zombie movies to comment on racism, social inequity, and the changing state of the world.
" Shane's piece suggests The Rules Do Not Apply is narrow in focus; "What, in the middle of when my baby was dying, I should have gone on a side trip about how, you know, there's a lot of economic inequity in the world?
By Friday, she was standing in front of 500 people, according to a staffer -- 300 inside, 200 outside on a crisp western Iowa night -- pitching herself, and her message, as the antidote to growing economic inequity and a faltering health care system.
Big City It wasn't that long ago that Bill de Blasio was the face of progressive politics in America, winning an election in which he was not initially favored by riding the theme of Dickensian inequity that has animated the current presidential campaign.
But poor land records, rampant speculation and weak or corrupt implementation of regulations means that cities are using land inefficiently, increasing inequity and environmental risk as new residents take matters into their own hands, co-author Anjali Mahendra told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads DETROIT — It's been 22 years since a weeklong mass civil uprising took place in Detroit, an event that is sometimes seen as an isolated riot, but in fact was an expression of decades of racial inequity.
She pointed to the $3 million settlement for the family of Philando Castile, a black man who was fatally shot by a police officer in a suburb of St. Paul during a traffic stop in 2016, as a prime example of the inequity.
The design was cool and I felt as though I would show my employers some sort of support, but also I figured this would be a chance to address the inequity (and guilt) I'd been aware of since that late-night reading.
In its lyrical content (sung by the vocalist Debo Ray as well as a rotating cast of guest rappers and singers), the music on Disc 1 confronts a range of present-day injustices, from economic inequity to mass incarceration to gender-based discrimination.
Mike Moritz, a top partner at Silicon Valley's most successful venture capital firm, says that the local tech culture has descended into "soul-sapping discussions" about "the inequity of life," and compared it unfavorably with the work ethic in the Chinese tech scene.
One might assume that the president, who has railed against the inequity of sending American dollars to China in the form of our trade deficit, would be equally outraged at sending them all these American tax dollars to support payments on our debt.
In a step that could help correct part of this inequity, the Department of Agriculture recently finalized a rule to restore the intent of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, or Food Stamp, program, to be a bridge from dependency to the dignity of work.
The San Francisco-based nonprofit was founded by City College of San Francisco professor Terri Winston in 2003 as a "direct response to the economic and social inequity that women face in music production and the recording arts," according to their website.
At the rally, Google employees read off their list of demands, which includes an end to forced arbitration in cases of harassment and discrimination, a commitment to end pay and opportunity inequity, and a clear, inclusive process for reporting sexual misconduct safely and anonymously.
The administration's new rule addresses a major inequity by, in effect, providing the same tax advantage that traditional employer-sponsored group plans receive — exclusion of premiums from federal income or payroll taxes — to coverage that workers in the individual market purchase from an HRA.
In the wake of the walkout, Googlers have negotiated with executives for an end to forced arbitration in cases of harassment and discrimination; a commitment to "end pay and opportunity inequity"; a public report on incidents of sexual harassment at the company; and other concessions.
And for me, the college cheating scandal brings home the stark inequity between privileged parents who bend or break the rules for their kids and those with less power who often face harsher judgment for trying to reach for a better outcome for their children.
But that argument reveals a fundamental inequity that the #MeToo movement is only beginning to expose: In Hollywood, some people, most of them men, have the power to decide what makes great art — and who deserves to get hurt in order to create it.
And this year, which has largely been predicted as the most competitive ever, the topic of pay inequity between men and women soccer players has taken center stage: Recently, all 249.99 members of the U.S. women's team sued the U.S. Soccer Federation for gender discrimination.
"Extreme poverty and gender inequity drive the injustice that not only keeps girls out of school, but forces them into child marriages," said Fiona Mavhinga, a lawyer and one of the first girls in Zimbabwe supported by international educational charity Camfed to go to university.
Though the red carpet offers a very visible platform — one that just this year has been used to support the #MeToo movement, protest gender inequity, and more — there is certainly no rule that states it must be used as a tool to raise awareness.
All of my life, I've thought a lot about the way race is constructed and how racism functions, but it took me until much later in life to think about gender inequity, and I can see that shift happening in how I look at people.
Meanwhile, Google did not meet the other four demands, which entailed committing to end pay and opportunity inequity, disclosing a sexual harassment transparency report, implementing a process for people to anonymously report sexual misconduct and elevating the chief diversity officer to report to the CEO.
Media reports in Australia and South Africa have alleged that the competition will be cut back to 15 teams next year after last year's expansion to 18 teams was widely blamed for creating inequity in the playoffs and diluting the quality of the rugby.
Just as, during the Cold War, building the Berlin Wall was "a hell of a lot better," as President John F. Kennedy famously said, than going to war with the Soviet Union, building a wall today seems more feasible than doing something about economic inequity.
Trump also named as his nominee for attorney general Jeff Sessions, a man once denied a federal judgeship over charges of racism, who fought for public school funding inequity in his home state of Alabama and who has been a stalwart foe of immigrants.
"Without FCC action, this existing inequity is likely to be exacerbated by the increasing number of schools that are suspending in-person classes and have transitioned to remote learning over the internet to protect the health of students, faculty, and staff," the lawmakers wrote.
The fact that racism, misogyny, bigotry, discrimination, class inequity and sexual violence are still prevalent today is rooted in how those with privilege — those of us who do not have to face systemic oppression, myself included — rarely, if ever, encounter these injustices every single day.
For policymakers, the purpose of the anti-genetic discrimination laws is clear: Genetic information is private, and using it to determine how much an individual should pay for insurance is a breach of privacy, and will lead to vast inequity in the insurance policy market.
Antidotes to right-wing populism and the rise of fascism, fed by the refugee crisis and widening economic inequity, would include confronting the failures of past Western policies toward the region, learning from historically successful endeavors, and promoting the full spectrum of human rights.
Given that ObamaCare will likely not be overturned in 85033 — the need for complex and challenging to administer cross-subsidies like this is among the key reasons to jettison the law — the administration can act to remedy this inequity among smaller and larger insurers.
Set in the rural American South during World War II, the gripping drama "felt like a total reflection of what we're going through -- in terms of both gender and racial inequity," said Morrison, who read the piece before the election of President Donald Trump.
There is a strange resonance of Kollowitz's "The Survivors" (1923) with Chittaprosad's sketches, especially from the famine: both artists often use lithograph on paper to portray the figure of a mother and her hungry children to highlight the most inhuman aspects of social inequity.
We wanted to work at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) because we believed in its mission — since women have systematically been left out of art history, a museum devoted solely to championing women artists is necessary to correct gender inequity.
Katja Schatte, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington who teaches world history at the Washington state prison in Monroe, said criminal justice reform is intertwined with so many things happening in American society today — from the Black Lives Matter movement to inequity in public schools.
In the face of recent allegations of sexual misconduct against CBS CEO Les Moonves, many have been questioning the actions of the CEO throughout his tenure at the network — particularly his recent involvement in a coalition designed to put an end to workplace harassment and pay inequity.
" She was equally politic when I asked her about Biden's dispute with Kamala Harris, particularly over his history of opposing busing: "While America must reckon with its past, my focus is on how the next President will address the persistent issue of inequity in public education.
In fact, school choice is creating an integrated learning environment, thus turning these harmful policies on their head — by providing equal opportunity to a high-quality education for every child, especially the minority and low-income students who have historically been the victims of racism and inequity.
"Women consistently not only have pay inequity but weaker labor force participation, which can explain poverty risks later in life, especially as women tend to live longer than men and have fewer resources over their lifetime," said Ernest Gonzales of New York University in New York City.
Mr. Sanders also views the crisis as a moment when the progressive agenda he has championed for years is especially vital, and he is eager to leverage his influence at a time when issues like health care and economic inequity are so resonant, some allies say.
On one end of the spectrum, the term is used to describe societal inequity, evidenced by things such as the gendered wage gap in the United States, the difficulties women have in finding adequate medical care and the career-destroying prerogatives of men like Les Moonves.
Milestone Films will release both Weber's brilliant "Shoes" (1916), about an impoverished young woman led astray, and "The Dumb Girl of Portici" on DVD and Blu-ray in 2017; it also distributes "The Blot" (1921), a tale of desire and class inequity that is among her finest.
It's not that I haven't been inspired by the millions of women who've spoken out as part of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, or, taken part in marches across the nation to expose the blatant misogyny, harassment and systematic pay inequity we face in the workplace.
As a presidential candidate, Trump blasted NFL player Colin Kaepernick throughout the campaign for kneeling during the anthem to protest racial inequity in the U.S. Then, in September, Trump suggested at a rally in Alabama that teams and the league should ensure consequences for players who kneel.
Harris had laid out her opposition to the death penalty during her run for DA, saying there were a multitude of systemic flaws -- including the inequity of its application based on a defendant's race and income, and the cost to taxpayers of keeping prisoners on death row.
Occupy sparked a debate about the ways that capitalism undermines and sabotages democracy, and forced elites to think of economic inequity as a moral predicament—all at a time when Barack Obama had won plaudits from economists for shepherding the U.S. out of a dire recession.
"When you boil it down, the real narrative about noncommunicable diseases is, sadly, the same narrative that exists in other areas of global health: It's driven by poverty and inequity and lack of access to the medical tools that exist in high-income countries," says Bollyky.
Since my time in admissions, and now that I'm currently deciding whether to have children, I've thought a lot about white parents' roles in perpetuating the inequity of school segregation and sociologist Margaret Hagerman's work about how well-intentioned white families keep racism alive in in education and beyond.
In fact, 93% of workers in the U.S. want to see equal compensation for employees; in Germany and the Netherlands 90% agree, and 87% are like-minded in Canada and the U.K.But there's bad news, too: No one seems to think wage inequity is a problem where they work.
Millions of readers are cheering for her triumphant story, but the harsh reality is for every kid born in a distressed neighborhood who gets the opportunity of fully becoming, thousands more never will because our nation has not learned how to handle poverty, racism and inequity for the masses.
Schwartz promises to illuminate potential solutions to this drastic inequity but instead delivers an infomercial for a land-stewardship system in which livestock "return carbon to the soil," increasing the soil's water-retention properties and reversing climate change — or so the system's founder, the Zimbabwean farmer Allan Savory, contends.
Whether you are more moved to action by the culture of sexual harassment or misconduct in institutionalized industries such as Hollywood, heinous gender crimes, pay inequity, or the lack of role models for women in business, we as a society are ready to press for substantive and indelible progress.
Community pharmacies live with that kind of inequity every day, because weeks and months after a Part D prescription is filled, the plan's PBM charges the pharmacy with retroactive fees that sometimes reduce their profit margin to pennies — or even leave the pharmacy upside down on the transaction.
There is an obvious way to alter the legal inequity tenants often face in court, one that could reduce the bad outcomes they so often experience in eviction cases: Give all low- to moderate-income tenants free legal counsel, the same kind offered to people charged with criminal violations.
Because such a disproportionate number of people locked up for long periods of time are people of color, there's a real inequity there, and you see it in sentencing laws—the most obvious being the difference that existed for so long in the sentencing between crack and powdered cocaine.
They were lost to murder, accidents, drugs and suicide, but also, as Ward writes, they were collectively taken by the intractable racism of the American South and what it breeds: staggering inequity, narrow choices and trauma, seen and unseen, among the same fault lines revealed by Hurricane Katrina.
In addition to a well-researched timeline and resource library of subjects related to Shinola, Detroit, colonialism, and social inequity, "Rethink Shinola" includes a "re-directed" cut of a publicity video starring Panis, onto which Modrak has animated colonial headgear including pith helmet, seersucker hat, and Napoleon bicorne.
We are no longer the beacon of hope for immigrants; no longer the leader in the battle to mitigate climate change; no longer a country seeking to reduce gun violence; no longer a country trying to lessen income inequity; no longer a country working to preserve our environment.
"The Getty's internship program has been, in my opinion, the single most important initiative in Los Angeles tackling the core problem we face in diversifying our field — economic inequity," said César García-Alvarez, the founder of the nonprofit arts space The Mistake Room, which has used Getty interns.
"We, the undersigned participants in Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 22019-13, echo this call and support Collins in the hope that his action will 'contribute to the global momentum to protest inequity, occupation, labour extraction and disenfranchisement, and to see, together, better days'," the open letter says.
But Pence walked out of the game after athletes knelt during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequity in the U.S. "President Trump and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem," he said in a statement.
The public is acutely aware of this gross inequity (one poll shows the tax bill was the second most unpopular piece of legislation ever) even though Republicans spent all of last year claiming they would pass a tax overhaul that would focus its benefits on the middle class.
Northam's policy team is looking at crafting a set of proposals based on the premise that the governor's mistakes have rendered him keenly aware of inequity and the lack of justice faced by black Virginians 400 years after the first African people arrived in the Commonwealth, at Point Comfort, in 1619.
Research from both Israel and the United Kingdom indicate considerable injury inequity, as well, with the UK noting that "in general, women have smaller hearts, about 30% less muscle, slighter skeletal structure and wider pelvic bones ..." These findings are significant in light of individual infantrymen load weights topping 0003 pounds.
Perhaps the greatest gap between traditional have and have-nots is the inequity of alumni giving, and the article rightly encourages donors to focus on whom a college serves — on helping the many students who need every possible dollar to enable them to complete their education and change their future forever.
Google is getting it from both sides of the ever more contentious debate over gender inequity in Silicon Valley — on one side for taking decisive action against what the search giant deemed sexist language by a staffer and on the other for allegations that it pays women less than men.
Clinton's supporters, who see the inequity of her growing lead in the national popular vote, which is now more than two million votes, or 1.5 percent of all ballots cast, according to the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, which regularly updates its count as states continue to tally and to certify votes.
At a rally in San Francisco, Google staffers read off their list of demands, which included an end to forced arbitration in cases of harassment and discrimination, a commitment to end pay and opportunity inequity and a clear, inclusive process for reporting sexual misconduct safely and anonymously, reported Kate Clark.
At the heart of the climate fight and efforts to switch to renewable technologies is a love of humanity, an understanding of inequity and disenfranchisement of those least responsible for and most vulnerable to climate crises, and the desire to build a better energy system that works for all of us.
While in recent years the 14th Amendment has been expanded by the Supreme Court to give women, as well as men, far greater protection from sex discrimination, it has not been an effective avenue to justice for women suffering from unequal treatment, including pay inequity, pregnancy discrimination and gender-based violence.
Without notes and with a poignancy that brought some of his listeners to tears, he made a case for those who have demanded an end to police brutality and racial inequity, without directly mentioning those athletes who have taken a knee during the national anthem or groups like Black Lives Matter.
Across the world, an estimated 124 million children are unable to attend school; there are more children forcibly displaced by conflict now than at any moment since World War II; and inequity is so severe that 167 million of them are at risk of living in extreme poverty by 2030.
Across the world, an estimated 124 million children are unable to attend school; there are more children forcibly displaced by conflict now than at any moment since World War II; and inequity is so severe that 167 million of them are at risk of living in extreme poverty by 2030.
As the success or failure of the new law risks being measured based on misleading, alarmist cases, it's important to return the focus to what made reform so urgent in the first place: the racist inequity of the old system and the fact that bail doesn't make our communities safer.
Photograph by Christaan Felber for The New Yorker Natalie Moore, a reporter for the radio station WBEZ and the author of "The South Side," a forthcoming book on race and inequity, grew up in Chatham, a historic black neighborhood, and works out of a storefront bureau on Seventy-fifth Street.
Highlighting the fact that gender disparity in the gallery's own collection remains an overwhelmingly feature — 88% of the collection is by male artists — the exhibition establishes an important conversation about gender inequity that all galleries and museums in Canada ought to be having today, though many, it seems, remain reluctant.
For a more robust economy, the small business community deserves to have capital unlocked on a more equitable basis, correcting the gross inequity of 78 percent of venture capital being concentrated in three states; sadly, only six percent is going to women and one percent to African-Americans and Latino-Americans each.
The report from the panel showed that once a minority community had been redlined, the red line established a feedback cycle that continued to drive inequity and deprive poor neighborhoods of financing and insurance coverage—redlining had contributed to creating poor economic conditions, which already affected these areas in the first place.
And that's what I think we have to remember, is that we talk so often on the conservative side and on the Republican side about the importance of entrepreneurship, the importance of small businesses to our economy, and yet they're the ones who suffer right now with an inequity in the tax system.
Were it not for the spread of the coronavirus, there would have been a Tuesday morning gathering at the Workers United building on East Avenue in downtown Rochester, N.Y. The event was organized by members of the Pay Equity Coalition, a local group that unites other organizations around the issue of pay inequity.
Nor does adding in a test of group dominance or power inequity clarify things: If the Trinidad-born pop star Nicki Minaj wears Asian attire, should we be burning up our computers — or some region of Reddit, anyway — in an effort to quantify the relative power of the implicated cultures and "subject positions"?
But it's hard to maintain much less build new 220006st century schools without an adequate property tax base — a problem across much of rural and urban America, where a history of inequity in low-wealth rural and urban communities means children often go to schools that are unhealthy, unsafe and educationally obsolete schools.
The effect of that inequity on women in and out of Hollywood was the subject of a panel later on Friday afternoon, in which actresses, writers, marketing professionals, and some women who had worn multiple hats talked about surviving in Hollywood and figuring out how to do the work they wanted to do.
In the post, they write: However, the response ignored several of the core demands — like elevating the diversity officer and employee representation on the board — and troublingly erased those focused on racism, discrimination, and the structural inequity built into the modern day Jim Crow class system that separates 'full time' employees from contract workers.
He also championed the death penalty for five black and Latino teens wrongly accused of raping a white woman in 1989 in New York's Central Park, used an expletive to describe African countries in 2018, and singled out black athletes for criticism after they failed to stand for the national anthem while protesting racial inequity.
We seek out these dens of inequity because without them we'd be nothing more than 64 million bitter, resentful, sacks of blood and congealed fat with nothing to look forward to other than a new series of the Bake Off and the possibility that a woman might put a cat in a bin again.
The few brushes I had with structural inequity seemed fleeting and inconsequential, like the time a teacher revealed that I had been assigned the role of deputy head at my primary school's prefectorial board because the school administration deemed it necessary, for optics, that a Malay student assume the role of head prefect instead.
Indeed, the current urgency about inequality as an issue is really about how some white Americans are coming to live an experience that many minorities in this country have long lived — structural inequity has leapt the racial barrier — and that the legacy to which they fully assumed they were heirs is increasingly beyond their grasp.
Other offerings will include the New York premieres of Missy Mazzoli's "Breaking the Waves"; "Funeral Doom Spiritual" by M. Lamar and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix; and "Silent Voices," a collaborative multimedia piece, with music by Sahba Aminikia, Jeff Beal, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Toshi Reagon and DJ Spooky, that will explore race, gender, inequity and social disparity.
Reid, a Pro Bowl-caliber defensive back, was a standout for five seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, but he became a lightning rod in 2016 when he joined Kaepernick, then the team's quarterback, in kneeling on the sideline during the national anthem to protest police brutality and societal inequity for people of color.
"While it's disappointing that Chicagoans won't have the chance to give Rahm Emanuel the massive defeat at the polls he deserves for his long record of sheltering injustice, perpetuating inequity, and failing to keep Chicago safe, this is a great day for the Windy City," the organization's chair Jim Dean said in a statement.
Perhaps foremost, the luxury of time allows Davies' treatment to highlight the class disparities and political inequity that are at the heart of Hugo's story, showing the licentious, privileged young men that dally with Fantine and her friends but then run back to Paris, abandoning her with a child and scant means of support.
The Commission to Examine Racial Inequity released a 6900-page report after a review of actions taken by the Virginia General Assembly between 2628 and 28503 — a time period spanning from the early days of Virginia as a post-Confederate state through Reconstruction, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the civil rights era.
" With implementing corrective, antiracist policy as his main objective, Dr. Kendi outlines many necessary steps along the way, including to "figure out who or what group has the power to institute antiracist policy, monitor closely to ensure the antiracist policy reduces and eliminates racial inequity, and monitor closely to prevent new racist policies from being instituted.
In addition to an end to forced arbitration, the demands of the walkouts also included: A commitment to end pay and opportunity inequity; A publicly disclosed sexual harassment transparency report; A clear, uniform, globally inclusive process for reporting sexual misconduct; Promote the Chief Diversity Officer to answer directly to the CEO; appoint an Employee Representative to the Board.
But if players create and claim ownership of a new narrative that comes out of this weekend, one that results in an awakening in this country about race and inequity and is more than just holding up a middle finger to a fat old man, Kaepernick's original movement can become more powerful than anyone ever dreamed.
That sense of inequity persisted throughout the night, as most of the speeches made by men veered away from being remotely political—take Ewan McGregor's acceptance speech for Fargo, for instance, or Sam Rockwell's for Three Billboards—and The Greatest Showman, a facile offense in a progressive work's clothing, took home the prize for Best Original Song.
The study was one in a series of papers that explored equity and equality of health in the US. (Other factors contributing to the widening health inequity include systemic racism and mass incarceration.) Researchers from the Boston University School of Public Health reviewed literature that looked at trends in survival inequalities over the timespan of 1980 through 2015.
"The issues that are being discussed are absolutely critical to this nation," said the mayor, Bill Peduto, referring to the racial inequity and police brutality highlighted by players who take a knee and Alejandro Villanueva, a former Army ranger and Bronze star recipient who was the sole Steeler to stand outside the tunnel for the anthem.
Sanders and I may disagree on tactics, but we share a common vision for the need to provide affordable health care for all Americans, reduce income inequity that has risen so drastically, to tackling the existential threat of our time: climate change," Biden said in remarks via a livestream from his home state of Delaware.    "Sen.
As mayor of a city that is racially diverse and largely low-income for eight years I have lived and breathed the successes and struggles of a community where far too many people live with the consequences of racial inequity that has built up over centuries but been compounded by policies and decisions within living memory.
"This announcement honors the stewardship by the NAMES Project Foundation over the past three decades in passionately caring for the quilt and ensures its permanent home will continue to forever honor its history, the lives, struggles, despair, inequity and hope that it represents," John Cunningham, executive director of the National AIDS Memorial, said in a statement.
"In the world there is a debate over inequity, and sometimes we get caught up in that, and retail does in general," Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said in a 2014 interview on CBS with Charlie Rose, the year the company announced it would try to pay its employees more than the federal minimum wage — of $7.25.
The work resonates in Mely Barragán's soft sculpture which spells out the word "Macho" in filigree cursive and captures both the quotidian absurdity of daily gender inequity and the banality and redundancy of calling out the machismo of Mexican culture, as though it were only ensconced within that particular national imaginary and not an international point of concern and contention.
The Education Trust is specifically focused on issues of inequity in higher education, and Jones said something that is often forgotten in discussions of student loan debt is that low-income students and students of color — especially those who default on their loans — are much more impacted than middle-class students who are still able to pay off their loans.
It plays into societal problems we have overall, in terms of women being aggressive and not being ... Some women ... The way it's set up creates the situation, and then it creates the inequity, and then it goes one after the other, which isn't ... I think pay is where it has to start, because once that happens ... People value based on pay, they do.
The community has been left reckoning with its own role in enabling abusers, both because of movements like #MeToo and Time's Up and because Weinstein himself was an integral part of major film festivals like Sundance and Cannes, which devoted a great deal of time in their 2018 festivals to confronting the ways they have enabled harassment and gender inequity.
The comments come after President Trump last week spurred controversy after he attacked NFL players who kneel during the national anthem, a practice that began last year to protest police brutality and racial inequity in the U.S. Trump has since doubled down on his attacks, calling for the NFL to put in place a rule banning players from kneeling during the national anthem.
We foresee an alarming, if unintended, consequence: organizations with larger budgets and more paid staff — the same ones already attracting the vast majority of all public and private funding — will be better positioned to fund the creation and implementation of newly mandated diversity plans, thereby making them more competitive and ultimately increasing rather than mitigating existing inequity between large and small organizations.
While Judge Oetken expressed "[s]ympathy" that Monnin "is suffering from her poor choice of counsel" and agreed that her lawyer acted "unconscionably," he declined to vacate the judgment because the arbitrator relied on evidence to support his decision and the "apparent inequity" of the default judgment was not enough for the federal court vacate the judgment under the very protective rules for arbitration awards.
" Their pledge echoes the call of the letter, which ends with a specific address to these institutions: "We, the undersigned — those who have experienced abuse and those standing in solidarity with them — call upon art institutions, boards, and peers to consider their role in the perpetuation of different levels of sexual inequity and abuse, and how they plan to handle these issues in the future.
On Friday night, a few thousand protesters were disruptive but organized as they marched in the early evening in front of hospitals and down the streets of the posh Central West End, urging diners at patios of expensive restaurants, "Off the sidewalk onto the street" as part of broader efforts to force potentially uncomfortable conversations about racial inequity in affluent and mainly white areas.
The president stoked an issue dating back to last year, when then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequity in the U.S. Sessions on Tuesday defended Trump's call for NFL owners to fire or suspend players who protest during the national anthem, saying Trump has a right to free speech, just as the athletes do.
But as the son of poor, hard-working immigrants from Cape Verde off the coast of Africa and the first and only person in my family to attend college, I did have a lot to share with my peers about the inequity in our nation's public education system and the unbelievable luck it takes for a student like me to make it to a school like Harvard.

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