Sentence examples for persistence of inequality from inspiring English sources

To understand the persistence of inequality, a reader would have to go beyond this book.

For Douglass, the aftermath of the fight to end slavery was a lesson about the persistence of inequality: it had already begun to take a new form, in proposals to deny constitutional protections to Chinese immigrants.

The report, which focused mainly on the roots and persistence of inequality in South Africa, said that since apartheid ended in 1994, "growth has also been highly uneven in its distribution, perpetuating inequality and exclusion," and that "at the heart of high inequality lies the inability to create employment opportunities on a large enough scale".

Even the most well-meaning attempts to grapple with the persistence of inequality between "blacks" and "whites" in American society take it for granted at the outset that racial categories adequately capture the relevant differences under investigation (see, for example: Thomas B. Edsall's recent column, "The Persistence of Racial Resentment").

Besides being a key driver of the epidemic, the persistence of inequality and discrimination facing Zambian women continues to create significant barriers to social and economic development.

The study also provided evidence of persistence of inequality in SBA and MEDFAC indicating minimal professional delivery care among women with the lowest socioeconomic conditions.

1 The Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health in the late 1990s documented a widening of inequalities in mortality 2 and most recently the publication 'Fair Society, Healthy Lives' reported the persistence of inequalities across a range of health outcomes.

More broadly, the findings reflect the lack of consistency in national standards defining antenatal care that all Australian women should expect to receive, which unless addressed, will see the persistence of inequalities in maternity care and outcomes.

On the dark side, the 2012 report shows persistence of inequalities in the incidence and prevalence of RRT and in access to optimal therapeutic modalities, such as kidney transplantation, across different European countries, that appear to be unexplained by demography or by per capita gross domestic product.

Based on the theoretical framework of intergenerational persistence of educational inequality, Li (2006) puts emphasis on the correlation between the mechanisms of educational inequality, institutional design and social background, and concludes that the resource advantages of the dominant class are slowly turning into better education opportunities for their children.

This remains a significant factor in the persistence of gender inequality.