inequality

[ˌɪnɪˈkwɑːləti]

Definition:
1. Lack of equality.
2. The unfair difference between groups of people in society, when some have more wealth, status or opportunities than others.

Use 'inequality' in a sentence:

1. The face of income inequality, for all but a very few of us, is the one we each see in the mirror.
2. Economic inequality translates into political inequality, and political inequality yields increasing economic inequality.
3. This pedagogical understretch is exacerbating social inequalities.
4. In the past decade, even as income inequality has grown, some of the socioeconomic differences in parenting, like reading to children and going to libraries, have narrowed.
5. Why does the author stress the relationship between poor health and inequality?
6. People are concerned about social inequality.
7. Growing income inequality has coincided with the increasing importance of a college degree for earning a middle-class wage.
8. Economic inequality is the "defining challenge of our time," President Barack Obama declared in a speech last month to the Center for American Progress.
9. If you believe, as many do, that wealth inequality is inherently bad, then these taxes improve society while also swelling government coffers.
10. Addressing differences in the earliest years, it seems, could reduce inequality in the next generation.
11. Today's faces of income inequality and lack of opportunity look like all of us.
12. Data reveals that economic inequality rather than family income might affect people's wellbeing.
13. Income inequality usually falls during a recession, but it has not shrunk in this one.
14. Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children's long-term social, emotional and cognitive development, said Sean Reardon, professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University."
15. As African Americans, we are particularly attuned20 to injustice, inequality, and struggle.
16. Nowadays, it seems none of us can get away from income inequality.
17. How did this "shining city on a hill" become the advanced country with the greatest level of inequality?
18. The class differences in child rearing are growing — a symptom of widening inequality with far-reaching consequences.
19. Our economy, our democracy and our society have paid for these gross inequalities.
20. However, they generally agree with the idea that inequality in the information society is fundamentally different from that of an industrial society.
21. Scholars of the information society are divided over whether social inequality decreases or increases in an information-based society.
22. The problem of inequality is not so much a matter of technical economics.
23. In recent years the problems which are caused by the inequality of education opportunity have attracted the public's attention.
24. We don't need to have this much inequality in America.
25. Inequality is also an engine of protest.
26. Warren also allows that capitalist development may, in its early stages, result in increased social inequality.
27. Called conditional cash transfers or CCTs, these social assistance programs are designed to reduce inequality and break the cycle of poverty.
28. There are also fears it could create more inequality.
29. You may be a sceptic and put it down to life's inequalities.
30. Then the educational system can actually perpetuate and even increase inequality in third world nations.
31. A major part of women's inequality in marriage has been due to the fact that, in most cases, men have remained the main breadwinners.
32. "Increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream," he said.
33. Inequality is dangerous, he argued, not merely because it doesn't look good to have a large gap between the rich and the poor, but because inequality itself destroys upward mobility, making it harder for the poor to escape from poverty.
34. The class differences in child-rearing are growing—a symptom of widening inequality with far-reaching consequences.
35. The class differences in child rearing are growing—a symptom of widening inequality with far-reaching consequences.
36. As informatization progresses in society, the cause and structural nature of social inequality changes as well.
37. As informatization progresses in society, the cause and structural nature of social inequality change as well.
38. Obama is only the most prominent public figure to declare inequality Public Enemy NO.1 and the greatest threat to reducing poverty in America.
39. Inequality is not just about the top marginal tax rate but also about our children's access to food and the right to justice for all.
40. While by no means perfect it is considerably more comprehensive than average income, taking into account not only growth in consumption per person but also changes in working time, life expectancy, and inequality.
41. America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequality from one generation to the next.
42. Blacks have been hurt by racial inequalities in housing and education.
43. Tackling the inequality, racism and other forms of "structural violence" which oppress the poor is as critical as extending the drugs.
44. Self-esteem helps to combat gender inequality in the workplace.
45. Gender inequality continues to frustrate a lot of female employees.
46. As a result, we must spare no effort to solve the problem of gender inequality.
47. It will reduce regional inequality.
48. Obama is only the most prominent public figure to declare inequality Public Enemy No.1 and the greatest threat to reducing poverty in America.
49. Similarly, a wealth tax has been put forward as a way to reduce inequality while raising revenue.
50. This pattern of white privilege and black inequality continues today.
51. However, that comparison omits other relevant factors ： leisure time, life expectancy, and economic inequality.
52. However, that comparison omits other relevant factors: leisure time, life expectancy, and economic inequality.
53. Meanwhile, growing income inequality has coincided with the increasing importance of a college degree for earning a middle-class wage.
54. Inequality itself is not a particularly strong predictor of economic mobility, as sociologist Scott Winship noted in a recent article based on his analysis of this data.
55. He thought social inequality was all part of the natural order of things.