Inequality

Addressing social, political, and economic system A collection of 23 posts
"A Bitter Pill to Swallow”: How Healthcare Commodification Drives Inequity and the Growing Case for a Universal Healthcare System
Global Health

"A Bitter Pill to Swallow”: How Healthcare Commodification Drives Inequity and the Growing Case for a Universal Healthcare System

Healthcare commodification and privatization are escalating in the United States. As healthcare premiums continue to soar while return on investment seems to diminish, the discussion of reforming our healthcare system is of much contention.
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How are Companies Implementing Inclusion and Diversity to Combat Hiring Discrimination?
Inclusion and Diversity

How are Companies Implementing Inclusion and Diversity to Combat Hiring Discrimination?

Issues in the Corporate Hiring Process One of the central controversies of the business world over the past decade has been hiring discrimination, especially in the financial services and tech industries. Over the
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Immigration: US vs. Canada
Inequality

Immigration: US vs. Canada

By: McConnell Bristol & Kate Choi
The Hypocrisy of Hungary’s Refugee Crisis Response
Inequality

The Hypocrisy of Hungary’s Refugee Crisis Response

“UN High Commissioner for Refugees Urges States to Urgently Lift Pandemic Restrictions on Asylum.” SchengenVisaInfo.com, Schagenvisainfo News, 23 May 2022, www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/un-high-commissioner-for-refugees-urges-states-to-urgently-lift-pandemic-restrictions-on-asylum/.As nations open their borders to those
“Anti-Feminism” and Gender Politics in South Korea
Feminism

“Anti-Feminism” and Gender Politics in South Korea

AFP-JIJIJust over a month ago, South Korea (referenced as “Korea”) elected its new president. Candidate Yoon Seok-yeol of the right-wing “People Power Party” defeated candidate Lee Jae-Myung of the incumbent left-wing Democratic Party,
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The Social and Economic Cases for Paid Parental Leave in the United States
Inequality

The Social and Economic Cases for Paid Parental Leave in the United States

Bangs, Molly. “The Facts Behind Why Americans Need Nationwide Paid Family Leave.” The Century Foundation, 11 May 2016, https://tcf.org/content/facts/facts-behind-americans-need-nationwide-paid-family-leave/?agreed=1.The United States is the only developed
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Radical South Asian Solidarity Through Times of Crisis
Inequality

Radical South Asian Solidarity Through Times of Crisis

TODAY Illustration / Getty ImagesWe currently live in a world where racial, gender and class-based divisions reign over the ways society is shaped. Our history with organized and systematic oppression has not been eradicated
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American Childcare Industry Weakens the Financial Security of Women
Inequality

American Childcare Industry Weakens the Financial Security of Women

Women’s equity cannot be achieved without addressing childcare. In order to prompt global action on this issue, the United Nations declared childcare burden inequalities as one of its sustainable development goals (7)
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Impact of COVID-19 on the Exploitation of Immigrant Workers in the United States
COVID-19

Impact of COVID-19 on the Exploitation of Immigrant Workers in the United States

An immigrant worker can be a Dominican sewing machine operator, a Russian constructor worker, or a Bulgarian meat processor. Yet, what these three workers have in common is that as immigrant workers, they
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The Effect of Covid-19 on Economic Inequality
Harvard

The Effect of Covid-19 on Economic Inequality

A demonstrator calls attention to income inequality during the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York several years ago. Photo: Mat McDermott (CC-BY)Today, the magnitude of the economic inequality present in the
The Tragedy of Workplace Gender Inequality: Why Fewer Women Occupy Managerial Positions
Harvard

The Tragedy of Workplace Gender Inequality: Why Fewer Women Occupy Managerial Positions

Fewer CEOs are women than are named John and David. (Source: Execucomp). Licensed under CC BY 2.0.This article consists of two interviews, one with Professor Laura Kray and one with organizational
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The State of the World's Children
Harvard

The State of the World's Children

In 1959, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1). We — as a global community — thus began to hold these truths to be self-evident, that the
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The History and Growth of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Profession
Berkeley

The History and Growth of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Profession

As employees discuss their discriminative experiences in the workplace, executives are scrambling to improve their organizations' hiring practices and company culture. This has led to the rapid expansion of corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.
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Climate Change and Climate Justice in the Pacific Islands
Harvard

Climate Change and Climate Justice in the Pacific Islands

The U.N. International Organization for Migration projects that there will be 200 million climate change migrants by 2050 (1). Some estimates range up to a billion, or more than one in every
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Environmental Destruction Predating Climate Change Has Plagued Low-Income Communities of Color for Decades
Harvard

Environmental Destruction Predating Climate Change Has Plagued Low-Income Communities of Color for Decades

Image credit: Ezra Acayan / Getty ImagesAs environmental disasters strike with greater frequency, the conversation around climate action is at its peak. In the last year alone, the United States lost $95 billion in
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Intellectual Property and Public Health clash over Covid-19
Harvard

Intellectual Property and Public Health clash over Covid-19

Intellectual property is a field of law that is critical to be aware of in understanding inequities in access to medicine and especially relevant in the time of Covid. Before understanding how Intellectual
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Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: What Covid-19 Tells Us About the History of Racialized Medicine
Harvard

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: What Covid-19 Tells Us About the History of Racialized Medicine

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports as of March 15, 2021, race and ethnicity is known for about 53% of individuals who have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine
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Chinatown Moves Out: Demography and Hate Crime in Modern Asian America
Brown

Chinatown Moves Out: Demography and Hate Crime in Modern Asian America

Take a look at Sugarland in Texas, Rockville in Maryland, and Richmond in British Columbia. What do all of these places have in common? On the surface, they may seem to be average,
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The Feminicidio Crisis in Mexico
Inequality

The Feminicidio Crisis in Mexico

The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated communities all over the world. In Mexico, women have been disproportionately affected due to increasing domestic abuse and the rise of feminicidios.
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