But overall, gays are a lucrative market, not an economically disadvantaged class.
Yet this newly proposed biological reduction of women to a hormonally disadvantaged class of people — one medically made disadvantaged, if necessary — struck many of us as regressive from the standpoint of women's rights.
Second, "gays" (aka LGBTQ people) are in fact an economically disadvantaged class.
In a landmark judgment by India's supreme court on Tuesday, transgender people were granted the status of a "third gender" category, recognising them as a socially and economically disadvantaged class.
These two initiatives, along with the constant talk of building a border wall and the Administration's fulminations about trade deficits, point to an over-all endeavor to create a kind of racial protectionism, to socially engineer a world in which whites the unheralded disadvantaged class in America once again have a deck stacked in their own favor.
Effects of protein-calorie malnutrition are inextricably blended with the effects of social cultural disadvantage; even within the disadvantaged class, literacy environment at home and parental expectation regarding children's education are powerful variables.
A central theme of the report is the profound, lifelong negative impact that being born poor, and into a disadvantaged social class, has on a child.
Mr. Horton, a 27-year-old junior at Georgetown University, recalls a class in which students — "kids with perfect scores" and little life experience — voiced the belief that an all-volunteer army was a security risk because it attracts a disadvantaged socioeconomic class.
You cannot oppose the overarching system of oppressions while giving it a free pass to perpetuate itself against one disadvantaged class.
Guy Standing is not convinced about our use of his "precariat" (precarious proletariat) term as the label for the most disadvantaged class that we uncover.
