The law stipulates that employers must help cover those costs, and feminists are seeking a system of state-supported childbirth insurance to lessen discrimination.
Human Rights Watch has called on the I.O.C. to make Saudi Arabia's future Olympic participation dependent on a good-faith effort to lessen discrimination against female athletes.
For advocates of gay rights, same-sex marriage has increasingly become a central issue in their battle for equality, seen as both an emotional indicator of legitimacy and as a practical way to lessen discrimination.
One grantee, the Centre for Jewish-Arab Economic Development, runs schemes to lessen job discrimination against Arab-Israelis, who, though a fifth of the population, contribute less than a tenth of GDP.Another big donor, the New Israel Fund (NIF), has also largely dropped co-existence.
He added: "It is vital that no school discriminates against any pupil on the basis of religion, ethnicity or social standing and we are glad that the school must now rewrite its admissions policy to lessen the degree of discrimination on all fronts".
10 Lessening of stigma and discrimination is a key aspect in increasing the uptake of HIV testing 23 in the population.
However, both parameters reveal limitations, which lessen their reliability in risk discrimination, and especially the beneficial effect of a high BMI is under debate (15, 16).
Another possible reason is that so many women throughout the society have been sexually assaulted that discrimination against them lessens.
This analogous to Becker's (1957) argument that lessened product-market competition will generate greater measured discrimination, a view that has been generally supported by empirical results (e.g., Ashenfelter and Hannan, 1986).
Whichever way you spin it, it's an example of positive discrimination and it serves not only to lessen the sense of achievement for those on the right side of the coin, but also to foster resentment for those who aren't part of the chosen minority.
Founded in 1974, the NLPOA is a national non-profit organization which seeks "to eliminate prejudice and discrimination in the criminal justice system; particularly Law Enforcement, reduce community juvenile delinquency and lessen citizen tension in predominantly Latino communities".
