Social Inequalities and Problems

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SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND PROBLEMS
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SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND PROBLEMS1
There are ample number of victims who have suffered at the hands of racial
discrimination and gender discrimination. The kind of discrimination that these victims face
is in the areas of employment opportunities, endemic poverty and even segregation. The
disadvantages faced by these victims are familiar when it is compared with the kind of
disadvantages the other victims face all around the world. Women for instance, suffer the
most at the hands of gender discrimination and also at the hands of racial inequalities
(Browne & Misra, 2003). They get low work pay as compared to that of men in the same
field of designation; they are segregated on the basis of their race even at the current modern-
day world; this kind of inequality has led to their high illiteracy rates and also poor access to
the health care facilities. Race is one form of discrimination while gender is yet another but
both the forms are not mutually exclusive nature of discrimination (Brown, 2012). Very
often, these two social inequalities intersect with each other and the consequence creates to a
double discrimination with very grave injustice.
For many people, especially women the factors that relate to their identity in the
society like race, colour, creed and ethnicity are creating problems that are unique in cases of
women and disproportionately affect them as compared to other people or basically the male
class of the society (Daly & Maher, 1998). They are marginalized within their community if
they belong to the minority race and are also marginalized within their family and the
community around them for the gender that they belong to. This double marginalization
prohibits them to perform their best potential and be independent and most importantly
contribute to the progress of the country or the area where they reside in (Sidanius &
Veniegas, 2013). It is a very common scenario that has been observed by many experts that
whenever the race of a woman is factored into her experience, the woman has to face double
burden of gender as well as racial discrimination which results in intolerance (Gillborn,