I think that schools can be much more powerful, but I don't think they can reverse all the ill effects of a starkly disadvantaged status in society.
Using double standards to judge job applicants can prevent the selection of qualified candidates who possess disadvantaged status characteristics.
Their disadvantaged status is exploited by Sylvester, the tracksuit-wearing coach of the Cheerios (the cheerleading squad), who makes it her mission to denigrate and humiliate every member of Glee club – as well as their teacher, Will Schuester (played by Matthew Morrison).
Informal zones are areas in which houses were built without government approval, reflecting disadvantaged status.
Taking female migrant sex workers (FMSWs) in Hong Kong as an example of a marginalised and vulnerable population, we argue that the current policies both contribute to and perpetuate their disadvantaged status.
The disadvantaged position of ethnic minorities have mostly coincided with their low socioeconomic status, and it is not until recently that a focus on ethnicity as such has begun to be considered in reports and literature (29).
National health inequality monitoring is the basis for global monitoring, but it also goes beyond this to seek a more sophisticated understanding of the health status of disadvantaged subgroups within a country.
The low socio-economic status of marginalized, disadvantaged, and precarious populations in urban settings has been linked to adverse health outcomes including chronic and infectious disease, negative health behaviours, barriers to accessing health care services, and overall mortality.
Ethnic Gypsies, Eastern European Roma and Irish Travellers (GRT people) experience "the worst health and education status of any disadvantaged group in England".
Students of disadvantaged socioeconomic status who lack the level of academic preparation and college counseling afforded to higher-income students may not understand the reason for required core courses such as calculus.
In the United States, researchers have observed an epidemiological paradox in birth outcomes among foreign-born women of disadvantaged socioeconomic status [ 11- 13], whereas elevated odds of adverse prenatal outcomes was noted among India-born women [ 14].
