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Social inequality

  • Social equalityA pro-marriage equality rally in San Francisco, USA, stands as a visual marker of the struggle for equal rights. This state of affairs requires that all…
  • Economic inequalityEconomic inequality is an umbrella term for three distinct concepts: income, wealth, and consumption. Income inequality measures how the total sum of money…
  • PropertyIn 17th-century England, Sir Edward Coke wrote in his Institutes of the Lawes that a man's home is his castle. This legal phrase established that no person…
  • Gender equalityChristine de Pizan wrote The Book of the City of Ladies in 1405. Her words challenged the idea that women were naturally inferior to men.
  • Race (human categorization)In 1684, François Bernier published a text titled Nouvelle division de la terre par les différents espèces ou races qui l'habitant.
  • Racial segregationIn 2002, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court officially classified racial segregation as a crime against humanity.