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- And while job discrimination against women is real, it has less to do with sexism than with employers being wary of China's generous maternity benefits.
Chpt 12 *discrimination = unfair treatment of different groups of people differently
- Every year, at least another 2 million girls worldwide disappear because of gender discrimination.†
Chpt Intr.
- In the wealthy countries of the West, discrimination is usually a matter of unequal pay or underfunded sports teams or unwanted touching from a boss.†
Chpt Intr.
- In contrast, in much of the world discrimination is lethal.†
Chpt Intr.
- The best estimate is that a little Indian girl dies from discrimination every four minutes.†
Chpt Intr.
- Such discrimination kills up to 2 million girls each year worldwide.†
Chpt Intr.
- Modernization and technology can aggravate the discrimination.†
Chpt Intr.
- The Koran explicitly endorses some gender discrimination: A woman's testimony counts only half as much as a man's, and a daughter inherits only half as much as a son.†
Chpt 9
- Many of them end up actually starting businesses, and the skills are especially useful for girls because of the discrimination that women face in the formal job market.†
Chpt 9
- He argues that one of the key forces working in Europe's favor was openness to new ideas, and that one of the best gauges of that openness was how a country treated its women: The economic implications of gender discrimination are most serious.†
Chpt 9
- It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race.As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.—KOFI ANNAN, THEN UN SECRETARY-GENERAL, 2006†
Chpt 11 *
- One lesson of China is that we need not accept that discrimination is an intractable element of any society.†
Chpt 12
- Even college-educated women experience discrimination in finding jobs, and sexual harassment is widespread.†
Chpt 12
- But racial discrimination seemed a complex problem deeply rooted in the South's history and culture, and most good-hearted people didn't see what they could do about such injustices.†
Chpt 14
- Often, rich women were strikingly generous to institutions that openly discriminated against women.†
Chpt 14
- The movement's agenda should be broad and enveloping, while focusing on four appalling realities of daily life: maternal mortality, human trafficking, sexual violence, and the routine daily discrimination that causes girls to die at far higher rates than boys.†
Chpt 14
- One useful measure to help foster these is CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(discriminate as in: suffered discrimination) to treat people of different groups differently -- especially unfair treatment due to race, religion or gender
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(2)
(discriminate as in: discriminating taste) to recognize or perceive differences -- especially fine distinctions
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)