Equal opportunities & AntiDiscriminatory Practice Aims of the session Define the terms Equal Opportunities Define and identify stereotyping‚ prejudice and discrimination Identify appropriate legislation Suggest ways of creating a positive environment A few useful websites Commissions for racial equality www.cre.gov.uk Disability rights commission www.drc-gb.org National children’s Bureau www.ncb.org.uk UN convention on the rights of the child www.save_the_children.org.uk www.everychildmatters
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battle to come‚ gender equality. A justice that must be served both socially and constitutionally; therefore women and men must keep fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment proposed since 1923 to ensure a just society in the United States. According
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Is everyone created equal? In the Declaration of Independence we think of equality as many things. Only men were created equal or only white men were equal. There are many people who still think that not everyone is created equal but there is a greater number saying that we are equal. The main point is everyone is created equal. In the Declaration of Independence it states that everyone is created equal; but it doesn’t state who all is. In that time there was slavery and African Americans were not
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"multiple intelligence‚" which holds that every kid is smart in his or her own way if only you can find out what it is. Developed by a Harvard psychologist named Howard Gardner‚ the theory of multiple intelligences has taken its place alongside such concepts as critical-thinking skills and higher-order thinking as a cornerstone of enlightened education. It’s not hard to see why. In an egalitarian age‚ it is anti-elitist. And by redefining intelligence‚ it seems to topple the cruel tyranny of IQ. "It
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Pfizer Proposal Summary: In terms of total sales‚ Pfizer is the world’s largest pharmaceutical company that creates products that serve approximately 150 million people worldwide and sales of approximately $50 billion in 2009. Formed in 1849 as a chemicals business‚ it has realigned itself to become the world’s leading research based pharmaceutical company and has produced drugs such as penicillin‚ Lipitor‚ Viagra‚ Detrol‚ and Geodon and thousands of others throughout its history. Focused now on
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again through her doing “Everything Wrong”. In the middle of the novel‚ she accepted her differences‚ but didn’t fully embrace them; saying that “Like and equal are not the same thing at all”‚ (Page 150) as Charles Wallace said the citizens of Camazotz are equal through being the same‚ meaning that being like someone isn’t the same as being equal to someone. This quote
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EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES & DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT Are equal opportunities and diversity management interchangeable terms or different approaches to the management of people? In the UK‚ the labour market is becoming progressively more diverse which presents several opportunities and difficult challenges for organisations and managers to address. This mounting diversity of workers is accompanied by patterns of labour market inequality and discrimination. The purpose of this essay is to explain the
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Higher education equals higher salary? In China Youth Daily‚ a story of an undergraduate student raised uproar in society last year. A boy named Han Shengli，graduated from a university in Xi’an province，got a salary largely lower than what his father‚ a migration worker earned‚ even though he had devoted four years’ time‚ effort‚ energy and a large sum of money. A great number of people think that those with a university education should get a higher salary than those without‚ for they believe
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HUSH Memorization Report 2/24/13 * Shirley Chisholm‚ Equal Rights for Women * May 21‚ 1969. Washington‚ D.C. Shirley Chisholm was born in 1924 in Brooklyn‚ New York. She was the first African American to run for president but she was the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Congress. Chisholm was a strong supporter of equal rights for women and delivered her speech‚ “Equal Rights for Women‚” in Washington‚ D.C. on May 21st‚ 1969. Chisholm was outspoken on issues in America’s society;
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Uniforms equal the best education. All I ever hear at school is the constant complaining of uniforms yet little do they know it is only for their own good. They think it’s torture but they’re only there to help‚ help students rather than fight against them. It’s for their benefit‚ and only for their own benefit. The main reason why all schools should have uniforms is because it stops judgment among other students. A family that can’t afford the right clothes for their students may be mocked
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