Sentence examples for historic discrimination from inspiring English sources

The Mandal Commission recommendations would "reserve" quotas in government employment and in public universities for people from historically subordinate caste backgrounds as a means of righting centuries of historic discrimination.

In direct opposition to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which allows and in some cases requires affirmative measures to remedy historic discrimination, the Seattle and Louisville case held that school desegregation programs voluntarily adopted by school boards constitute unconstitutional racial discrimination.

That historic discrimination against women in public life?

It also said, however, that the federal law's formulas for including states with historic discrimination was unconstitutional.

The historic discrimination of female composers might account for some inequality when it comes to pre-20th century composers.

By apologising for a piece of historic discrimination, the Chinese head tax, he signalled a break with Canada's lily-skinned past.

The challenges for marginalised communities and vulnerable groups in accessing justice are even greater due to historic reasons, discrimination, economic deprivation, political marginalisation.

It may also result from spatial mismatch — blacks are disadvantaged in competing for jobs located where historic housing discrimination has prevented them from residing.

In the historic pregnancy discrimination case, Young v. UPS, the Supreme Court gave former United Parcel Service driver Peggy Young another chance to prove in a lower court that she was discriminated against when her employer refused her light duty as an accommodation for her pregnancy, and instead forced to leave the company.

32 In addition to the deeply engrained stigma of sex work and the historic police discrimination of sex workers, our findings indicate that when sex work clients are police enforcement targets, many sex workers remain reluctant to seek police protection.

Christine Forster says the historic anti-discrimination laws her brother, Tony Abbott, will contest in the high court on Friday, have not caused the sky to fall in, compromised anyone's existence or threatened the institution of heterosexual marriage.