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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Equality of Opportunity"”.
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Essays on equality of opportunity and the access to higher education
This dissertation examines the question of how to improve the access to higher education for students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, in order to promote equality of opportunity. In order to do so, experimental evaluation methodology is used to address relevant research questions and …
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Equality of opportunity in travel behavior prediction with deep neural networks and discrete choice models
… It highlights the accuracy-fairness tradeoff instead of the single dimensional focus on prediction accuracy in the contexts of deep neural network (DNN) and discrete choice models (DCM). The author firstly operationalizes computational fairness by equality of opportunity, then …
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The Right to a Home
… inhabit. I do this by refining our understanding of the contemporary homeless population and their contingency, as well as through the consideration of an argument for the right to public dwelling. I find this argument lacking and turn my attention towards the role of the state in maintaining …
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Intersectionality and employment equity in South Africa
The objectives of the South African Employment Equity Act include providing equal opportunity in the workplace. However, the existing methods for achieving equality of opportunity have been unsuccessful because they do not engage sufficiently with the complexity of, and reasons for, inequality in …
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The relation between Rawls' two principles of justice : a critical examination
John Rawls' principal aim in A Theory of Justice is to explicate a moral theory, justice as fairness, based on an interpretation of the social contract, which offers a substantial alternative to utilitarian thought in general. Rawls concentrates on justice because, in his opinion, it is the most …
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Justice within organizations: Perceptions of family support programs.
The implementation of workplace family support programs such as on-site child care and flexible work arrangements, represents an important step toward acknowledging the increasing numbers of women and mothers of young children within the work force. Nonetheless, work organizations have been slow to …
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Becoming a different person in the zone of proximal development : a case study of sixth form students making career and HE choices
… government's agenda, as it is seen as one means of achieving a better-qualified workforce. In their work with clients, Careers Advisers are required to promote equality of opportunity, which becomes problematic when studies show the HE system in the UK to be segregated along racial lines (Ball et …
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Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards: A Holistic Analysis
… a moral justification rooted in a broad notion of equality, although more heavily relying on empirical claims. This article demonstrates how empirical rationales in support of gender quotas are unconvincing. Economic evidence is ultimately inconclusive, and the social good justifications alone …
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Vocational outcomes of university-educated persons: A comparison of persons with and without disabilities
… with and without disabilities in acquisition of important benefits including: full-time and/or part-time employment, equal income, health and retirement benefits, and promotion opportunities. Amelioration of these differences is of significant importance to helping professionals, particularly …
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Section 75 and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland: conflict, ambiguity and cultural policy
… influence how public authorities interpret the equality and good relations obligations codified in Section 75 (s75) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998. Taking the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI) (the leading arts and cultural development agency in Northern Ireland) as a case study, I …
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"'Under the banner of the democratic principle': John Louis O'Sullivan, the democracy and the ""Democratic Review"""
… addresses the writings and activities of John Louis O'Sullivan (1813-1895) primarily during the years he conducted the United States Magazine and Democratic Review and the New York Morning News. Originator of the term ""manifest destiny,"" O'Sullivan was a leading exponent of ""romantic …
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Regulating competitive balance in sport
Sport is an integral part of popular culture, capturing the hearts and minds of millions of people from every section of society 1. Maintaining competitive balance in sport is essential in preserving its long term survival. A higher uncertainty of outcome in contests is likely to result in greater …
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Choosing success? Inequalities and opportunities in access to school choice in nine United States districts
… and battlegrounds where society seeks to achieve equality of opportunity. This statement cannot be more appropriate to describe the debate surrounding the school choice movement over the past three decades that is yet to be resolved, in a time where school districts face an increasing number of …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Inequality, Wealth, and Money
… between those at the top and those at the bottom of the wealth distribution in Western market economies is a worrying development as it hampers equality of opportunity and distorts democratic representation. This dissertation improves our understanding of both the causes and consequences of …
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Designer Genes: An analysis of a theoretical framework for policy proposals in relation to genetic engineering as a reproductive technology
With the new capabilities of genetic engineering and such biotechnologies, come added considerations for policy makers. If gene therapy (or even embryo selection) becomes common practice, we must look not only to creating policies that protect the interests of individuals in the legal and social …
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Delivering sustainability : development control in a market economy
The concept of Sustainability relates to the continuity of environmental, social, and economic aspects of humanity, and to the protection of the biodiversity and ecology of the natural environment. It was born out of a growing realisation that the scope of humanity's adverse impact onto our planet …
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From ability to (dis)ability: a bourdieudian analysis and case study of the experiences of young adults in utilising post-16 educational provision in Northern Ireland
… Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory of habitus, capital and field, this study explores the practices of domination and oppression which have prevented young (dis)abled people from progressing to third-level education on the same basis as non-(dis)abled people. Twenty young people with …
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Public health women doctors in England 1965 to 1991: "A perfect place for strategic butterflies"
This thesis contributes to the historiography of women in medicine by exploring, in-depth, one small specialty, public health, which, from 1974, offered women doctors working within it equality of opportunity with men for career development. At that time, most women doctors working in the English …
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Time to stop blaming parents: A case study of parents’ and children’s experiences of family life and in marginalised communities with implications for parenting interventions, educational welfare policy and practice
The inclusion of the voices of parents and children from marginalised communities is quite a departure from traditional rigid assumptions in parenting research. This study sought to explore parents' experience of family life and participation in the universal roll-out of Parents Plus Children's …
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A Comparative Analysis of Education Reform and its Impact on Socio-Economic Reform in the Twentieth Century
… historical framework, focuses on an analysis of American and English education policy from 1964 to 2000 with particular emphasis on the inter-relationships between education policy and socio-economic disadvantage. Although the focus of the project is primarily the last four decades of the …
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