inequality
不平等,不平等现象,不平等问题,不平等性
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plural in·e·qual·i·ties.
- : the condition of being unequal; lack of equality; disparity: inequality of size.
- : social or economic disparity: inequality between the rich and the poor; widening income inequality in America. unequal opportunity or treatment resulting from this disparity: inequality in healthcare and education.
- : disparity or relative inadequacy in natural endowments: a startling inequality of intellect, talents, and physical stamina.
- : injustice; partiality.
- : unevenness, as of surface.
- : an instance of unevenness.
- : variableness, as of climate.
- : Astronomy. any component part of the departure from uniformity in astronomical phenomena, especially in orbital motion.the amount of such a departure.
- : Mathematics. a statement that two quantities are unequal, indicated by the symbol ≠; alternatively, by the symbol <, signifying that the quantity preceding the symbol is less than that following, or by the symbol >, signifying that the quantity preceding the symbol is greater than that following.
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For example, look at the enormous inequality of the education system.
This prevents them from generating significant wealth and perpetuates systemic inequality.
Advances in technology have often benefited the West while exacerbating economic inequality, political oppression, and environmental destruction elsewhere.
Everyone should have access to the immense possibilities that the tech industry provides, but for the actual numbers to reflect this requires actively addressing the very unconscious biases that have contributed to rampant inequality.
The economists also think racial inequality in unemployment — a big problem in August’s jobs report — won’t be much better by year’s end.
The Perfect Storm writer talks combat brotherhood and the threat posed by growing wealth inequality.
Parker tells of a new Texas struggling to deal with inequality.
Thomas Piketty raised the Big Questions this year about democracy and inequality.
Piketty only waves his hands around the all-important question of whether economic inequality undermines democracy.
In fact, there is still a lot to do to rid the entire world of gay inequality.
There must be therefore no superiority of man over woman, no inequality, domestic or political.