inequalities

Women’s football review proposes hard-hitting changes to address ongoing inequalities

Women’s football review proposes hard-hitting changes to address ongoing inequalities: The England women's team huddle before playing Wales in a World Cup qualifier. Shutterstock/Influential Photography Women’s football and its players have been marginalised, ostracised, discredited and silenced for decades. More recently however, the momentum, performance quality and actions of players, fans and activists has given …

Cricket inequalities in England and Wales are untenable – our report shows how to rejuvenate the game

Cricket inequalities in England and Wales are untenable – our report shows how to rejuvenate the game: Rawpixe/Shutterstock After more than two years of research, interviews and evidence gathering, a landmark report by the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) was published on June 27 2023. Holding Up a Mirror to Cricket contains strong …

How activity in outer space will affect regional inequalities in the future

How activity in outer space will affect regional inequalities in the future: Seenax/Shutterstock Science fiction has always been a tool for processing life on Earth. Norwegian sci-fi expert Karl Kristian Swane Bambini has said that the space-bound genre is well placed to “interrogate and reimagine real-world economic disparities”. He gives the examples of, among other …

COVID deepened inequalities in HIV treatment: what we learnt in Nigeria

COVID deepened inequalities in HIV treatment: what we learnt in Nigeria: Suriyawut Suriya/Getty Images The 2022 World AIDS Day theme is Equalize. The reason for this focus is that HIV reflects economic and social inequity. People with low socio-economic status are worst affected by the epidemic. Also, the worst impacts of the HIV epidemic are …

Health system inequalities in East Africa drive antimicrobial resistance

Health system inequalities in East Africa drive antimicrobial resistance: Clinical officer, Christopher Kiboya, treating a patient in Tanzania. Tiziana Lembo, CC BY The COVID pandemic has exposed long-standing structural fault lines in societies – especially in health systems. These same inequalities also drive another major global health concern: antimicrobial resistance. The World Health Organization defines …

COVID-19: how rising inequalities unfolded and why we cannot afford to ignore it

COVID-19: how rising inequalities unfolded and why we cannot afford to ignore it: Hyejin Kang/Shutterstock Historian Walter Scheidel argues in The Great Leveler that pandemics are among the four great horsemen that, through history, have led to greater equality – the others being war, revolution and state failure. Economist Thomas Piketty in Capital in the …

The truth about racial inequalities and COVID-19 – and what should be done to address the long-term impacts

The truth about racial inequalities and COVID-19 – and what should be done to address the long-term impacts: It didn’t take long for the world to feel the pandemic’s impact on existing inequalities. A year after the arrival of COVID-19, however, and many of those outcomes have proven to be far more wide-reaching and devastating …

British people see geographical inequalities as most pressing – not gender or race

British people see geographical inequalities as most pressing – not gender or race: The end of lockdowns is in sight but the road out of these restrictions is only the start of a much longer journey to a full recovery from the pandemic. The crisis has ruthlessly exposed how our vulnerability to shocks varies hugely. …

Businesses say they want to tackle inequalities but they need more data to take action

Businesses say they want to tackle inequalities but they need more data to take action: Only 9% of London firms reported that they collect data on their disability pay gap. as-artmedia/Shutterstock COVID-19 has brought challenges like no other for businesses. In the UK, where firms have also had to deal with the challenges of Brexit, …

‘49% more likely to die’ – racial inequalities of COVID-19 laid bare in study of East London hospitals

‘49% more likely to die’ – racial inequalities of COVID-19 laid bare in study of East London hospitals: The UK has passed the terrible milestone of 100,000 deaths with COVID-19. These losses have not been evenly spread throughout different communities. A disproportionate number of both severe cases and deaths have been among those from Black, …

Coronavirus: inequalities in healthcare may explain worse outcomes for BAME people

Coronavirus: inequalities in healthcare may explain worse outcomes for BAME people: Robin J Gentry/Shutterstock With Britain now in its second lockdown, and the government predicting that the second wave could be worse than the first, it’s critical to examine why there are large racial disparities in the effects of COVID-19 and what could be done …

Racism is the key to understanding ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 – despite what UK government says

Racism is the key to understanding ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 – despite what UK government says: We’ve known for some time that people from ethnic minorities in the UK are several times more likely to be admitted to hospital or die from COVID-19. A new report authored by Baroness Doreen Laurence and commissioned by the …

Net-zero carbon emissions won’t be sustainable if social inequalities aren’t addressed

Net-zero carbon emissions won’t be sustainable if social inequalities aren’t addressed: Willy Barton/Shutterstock With COP26, the UN’s climate change conference, on the horizon next year in Glasgow, all eyes are on securing the decarbonisation of the global economy. What this will mean and how it will be achieved will be hotly debated before, during and …

UN Chief: World ‘At the Breaking Point’ Due to Inequalities

South Africa in the news: UN Chief: World ‘At the Breaking Point’ Due to Inequalities: UN Chief: World ‘At the Breaking Point’ Due to Inequalities JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Saying “we are at the breaking point,” the U.N. secretary-general made a sweeping call Saturday to end the global …: “South Africa” – BingNews Coronavirus patients swamp …

How South Africa can address digital inequalities in e-learning

How South Africa can address digital inequalities in e-learning: Many South African schools don't have computer labs or other digital technology. Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images South Africa’s education system is complex, with historical inequalities dating back to apartheid. Most of the country’s pupils come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Language is an issue; most pupils do not speak …

Get rid of private schools? We’d be better tackling inequalities between state schools

Get rid of private schools? We’d be better tackling inequalities between state schools: Kurt Pacaud/Shutterstock Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is the 20th Etonian to become prime minister of the UK. Most of his cabinet is composed of privileged, privately educated people, with two-thirds of his ministers among the 7% of the population who went …