When asked if Title IX, the 30-year-old federal law guaranteeing equal opportunity in sports, meant that the more-athletic girls were playing sports while the less-athletic (and thus more injury-prone) were cheerleading, Mr. Lord said the opposite was true.
Where risk of illness differs systematically in ways that are avoidable, guaranteeing equal opportunity requires that we try to eliminate the differential risks and to prevent the excess illness experienced by those at avoidable, greater risk (of course subject to resource limits and fair process in setting limits).
New laws that guaranteed equal opportunities in employment, housing and public contracting brought more reaction.
"During the period of transitional economy the government often fails to guarantee equal opportunities for all participants of the market," he acknowledged somberly.
I mean, if social liberalism means the state has no right to moralise at its citizens but has to guarantee equal opportunities for everyone, surely members of the party are not going to object.
States aiming to guarantee equal opportunities for immigrants will therefore not only facilitate naturalisation and equal rights for immigrants, but also adopt targeted policies and support mechanisms.
"Convinced of the need to guarantee equal opportunities for women and men in gaining access to senior decision-making positions, Member States are encouraged to consider presenting women, as well as men, as candidates for the position of Secretary-General," Mogens Lykketoft, President of the General Assembly and Samantha Power, President of the Security Council, said in a joint statement. .
Her report includes measures to guarantee equal opportunities in terms of access to employment, training and professional promotion; measures to respect women's and men's employment rights, including - and this must be emphasised - protection against sexual harassment; and measures to enhance the reconciliation of personal and family life and employment relations.
