How to Use inequality in a Sentence

inequality

noun
  • He has proposed a new system designed to remove inequalities in health care.
  • He accused the company of inequality in its hiring practices.
  • They discussed the problem of inequality between students.
  • More needs to be done to help a group that's been marginalized and had to endure systemic inequality for far too long.
    Kimanzi Constable, Parents, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Around the world, inequality has spiked over the last few decades—a trend especially bad here at home.
    Sheila Warren, Fortune Crypto, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The girls, who have a stricter dress code and other more rigid requirements, begin to chafe at the inequality.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
  • In its 352 pages, inequality comes up about a quarter of the way through and passingly thereafter.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • So what's happened with childcare is as inequality has increased, the demand for childcare has gone up and the price of it has gone up.
    Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2023
  • Here are some of the top culprits driving inequality in health care—and ideas for overcoming them.
    Ashley Lutz, Fortune Well, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Rising income inequality, the disparity between the rich and the poor in the U.S., has been growing for decades.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Confirming that those hardest hit were at the top of the financial dogpile was the fact that wealth inequality also fell over the same time.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • As a matter of course, most conversations about the state of the world assume that inequality is getting worse.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • In the study, researchers focused on Cape Town, South Africa, but said the findings were relevant to cities around the world where high inequality also abounds.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The thing that this show helps illuminate is the idea that inequality is a big player in disasters.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 15 May 2023
  • In a country with high levels of gender inequality, policies aimed at closing this gap could go a long way.
    Sarah Khan, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Just like today, where every workplace in the world is a great place to work for some, but creates more inequity and income inequality for others.
    Michael C. Bush, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Reading further, apparently the lack of shade is racist and a product of inequality.
    wsj.com, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Nordstrom recently was forced to close its doors in San Francisco, a city where a chasm of income inequality has led to vast wealth and soul-crushing poverty.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2023
  • But researchers were curious whether social inequality also played a role in those scenarios and, if so, how much of one.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Despite the intense bond of the Madrid realists, and even though the women outnumbered the men, the inequalities in opportunity were notable.
    Cecilia Casero, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Tens of millions of Latin Americans have lost their middle-class foothold as gains in fighting poverty and inequality in the first part of the twenty-first century have largely reversed.
    Shannon K. O’Neil, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • People are voting with their feet, and this is the hollowing out of the middle class that puts us on track to maintain our high Gini coefficient — income inequality.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Besides further entrenching inequality, that threatens the long-term water resources for the whole city.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The easiest thing to say is that maybe in places where inequality is lower, where healthy public space is much more fairly and equitably distributed, things are better.
    Rob Reddick, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Thus, inequalities in wealth and energy are a sticking point in the energy transition.
    Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • However, economic inequality is pretty well entrenched in most cities in the world.
    Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Staying in 📚Summoning mothers to their power to fight climate change and inequality.
    Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
  • This program will now be expanding to Buffalo to address the city’s issues of racial inequality and childhood poverty.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • At its height, that movement saw more than a half-million Israelis camped out in the streets of 130 cities demanding action on social inequality, not unlike the Occupy Wall Street movement.
    Micah L. Sifry, The New Republic, 13 July 2023
  • Manufacturing will need to transform to meet the demands of a world defined by gaping inequality, scarce resources, and an overabundance of waste.
    Gear Team, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2023

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