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Ethnicity --- Race discrimination --- Ethnicité --- Discrimination raciale
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Equality --- Discrimination --- Religious aspects.
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Higher education systems in many countries are undergoing significant changes in response to variety of local, national, and international pressures. Among these, the shift from elitism to the provision of mass higher education; increased impact of internationalization and globalization, which are increasingly blurring national boundaries; increased competition among universities for limited resources to support higher education sector; the impact of technology and the knowledge economy; and the continuing quest educational for equity. Given what we already know about the position of women in the academy, what is so significant about the account of women represented in this book? Lessons from colleagues in Western universities provide important models for understanding some aspects of gendered identity of women scholars; however, a deeper understanding of educational experiences for women in countries such as China, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, may potentially offer innovative insights to our current understanding of gender within education. In this age of globalization, there are common themes that transcend the experiences of women across very different social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. Therefore, accounts of women scholars represented in this volume demonstrate that the experiences women scholars are not isolated incidents but global phenomena, and may offer alternative approaches to problems that seem insurmountable to women at the bottom of the professional ladder. Further, the experiences of non-Western women scholars are important because it is only through an understanding of their educational conditions that institutions can implement policies and practices to respond effectively, and to create work environments that are supportive to professional aspirations of these scholars. Effective policies can only be attained when there is a clear understanding of the barriers and challenges female scholars. Given that gender concerns, especially in non-Western countries, have historically occupied and to some extent continue to occupy a marginal position in the daily operations of institutions of higher education, it is critical to highlight their potentially harmful effects not only on women scholars, but on institutions as well.
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We explore umpires' racial/ethnic preferences in the evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers. Controlling for umpire, pitcher, batter and catcher fixed effects and many other factors, strikes are more likely to be called if the umpire and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only exists where there is little scrutiny of umpires' behavior -- in ballparks without computerized systems monitoring umpires' calls, at poorly attended games, and when the called pitch cannot determine the outcome of the at-bat. If a pitcher shares the home-plate umpire's race/ethnicity, he gives up fewer runs per game and improves his team's chance of winning. The results suggest that standard measures of salary discrimination that adjust for measured productivity may generally be flawed. We derive the magnitude of the bias generally and apply it to several examples.
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Provides a global picture of job-related discrimination, citing both progress and failures in the struggle to fight discrimination ranging from traditional forms such as sex, race or religion, to newer forms based on age, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status and disability.
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Ethnicity --- Racism --- Race discrimination --- Ethnicité --- Racisme --- Discrimination raciale --- Ethnicité
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« Il ne convient plus de penser et d'agir en termes spécifiques pour des groupes tenus pour spécifiques. Il faut s'appliquer à rendre plus confortable, à humaniser pour tous, à partir du principe universel d'accessibilité et du concept de qualité de vie. Voilà ce qu'il importe de conscientiser : "Nous sommes faits pour vivre ensemble : ce qui est facilitant pour les uns est bénéfique pour les autres". Qu'ils soient architecturaux, sociaux, pédagogiques, etc., les plans inclinés sont universellement profitables. Quel est le défi, à la fois singulier et universel, qui sous-tend cette réflexion ? Il est simple, il est immense : faire droit à la singularité, même dans ses expressions parfois extrêmes ; autoriser chacun à apporter au bien commun sa biographie originale ; se donner mutuellement, par le lien social, une appartenance à l'universel ; admettre que la vulnérabilité est à la racine, au centre, au plus intime de tout être et de toute existence. Impossible d'approcher et de comprendre la réalité existentielle que constitue le handicap sans l'inscrire dans la chaîne culturelle universelle, sans la replacer dans "l'ordinaire". Et pour peu que nous parvenions à dessiller nos yeux, c'est l'ordinaire qui finira par nous paraître exceptionnel. » Charles Gardou
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At a cafe; table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting . . . Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite "valuation" firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his infatuation with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.
Pakistani Americans --- Race discrimination --- Self-perception --- Bias, Racial --- Discrimination, Racial --- Race bias --- Racial bias --- Racial discrimination --- Discrimination --- Ethnology --- Pakistanis
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