Questions tagged [equality]
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Has the Trump administration revoked these listed LGBT protections?
This image is doing the rounds on Facebook:
It quotes a tweet by Donald Trump from early 2016, followed by claims that the Trump administration has performed these actions:
Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary…
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Do women get cheaper car insurance?
My coworker told me women pay less car insurance than men. So I did some research and found some sites proving that.
For example:
According to How Age And Gender Affect Car Insurance Rates, women tend to pay less for car insurance than men. How can…
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Do women pay more than men when buying cars?
In the recent Bud Light commercial, Amy Schumer makes many claims regarding gender equality. One of these claims is that women pay more than men when buying cars.
Here's a link to said video.
Is this true?
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Are countries that have kings and queens empirically freer and more socially just than countries that don't?
Just listening to some thinking kind of stuff on YouTube and came across an interview with Stephen Fry, a highly respectable man in the "empiricist" and "rationalist" circles. I found most of what he said compelling and believable, but he made this…
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In fields dominated by white males, do white women impede full equality?
In reading a recent article in Business Insider on changes at GitHub, I noticed a rather surprising bullet point by Nicole Sanchez regarding "Diversity and Inclusion in Tech", which was
Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women.
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Did an Equity Bake Sale charge Caucasian men more for the same product?
I came across this picture:
Were products sold at different prices to different genders and races during a International Women's Day Equity Bake Sale?
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Are 91 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs in the United States white men?
Laura Mather wrote on Huff Post:
Let’s start with the numbers: women represent about 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs. Minorities represent approximately 4 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs. Therefore, only 9 percent of the biggest companies in the U.S.…
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