How to Use inequity in a Sentence

inequity

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  • The church has seen its share of inequity and injustice.
    — Williesha Morris | [email protected], al, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The inequities documented in the study aren’t unique to doctors or to the armed forces, Schwab and Singh said.
    — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
  • The current Steelers haven’t had time to build inequity with Browns fans.
    — cleveland, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The pay inequity is perhaps nowhere more visible than in the c-suite.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Gene does most of the talking in the next two scenes, laying out his cynical take on the world, of men and women, and the inequity of it all.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
  • In the early stages at least, inequity is likely to persist.
    — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Demand Justice The last few years have seen a massive shift in the way blue-chip art responds to inequity.
    — Alexandra Bregman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But the past plays a role in contemporary inequity, too.
    — Christian Elliott, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The high mortality rate highlights the inequity of a life-or-death sport.
    — Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 11 June 2024
  • The tools and resources to address this inequity exist.
    — Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022
  • There is no inequity or injustice that cannot be erased.
    — Javier Arce, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2023
  • But money isn’t the only inequity the soccer team is fighting for.
    — Reina Kempt, The Courier-Journal, 6 Mar. 2022
  • And because of the power dynamics based on race, there is an inequity.
    — Veronica Wells, Essence, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The subsequent Supreme Court case led to generations of inequity, has left a stain on the fabric of our country and on the state and on the city.
    — Abby Cruz, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2022
  • That’s a huge inequity that is really clear in San Diego today.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2023
  • The league has sought to address that inequity, and there are signs those investments are beginning to pay off.
    — Tim Booth, oregonlive, 7 July 2023
  • The new poll also points to how campaigns reinforce inequities in the electorate.
    — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • And under the hood, there are huge inequities in these numbers: 33% of low-wage workers are Hispanic, and 32% are Black.
    — Emily Peck, Axios, 11 July 2024
  • The inequity between the small market and large market teams continues to grow.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The city of Cleveland has launched what could be a major initiative to fight housing inequity.
    — Sam Allard, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
  • And there are still persistent gender and racial inequities to earnings, Gould points out.
    — Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 18 July 2024
  • The workers planning to take the day off have drawn attention to inequities faced in their profession.
    — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 13 May 2024
  • As on other surfaces, gender inequity has long prevailed on the world’s ice tracks.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The roots of this inequity go back to slavery, the report says, when many Black women were forced into caregiving roles.
    — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2022
  • What sorts of other inequities were exposed by your database?
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
  • There is no way to measure progress addressing deep, systemic inequities based on the early work of a three-man office.
    — Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
  • This persistent inequity forces families that can do so to vote with their feet.
    — Alia Wong, The Courier-Journal, 16 May 2024
  • Work has always been about more than just the job, and gray areas have long functioned to shape and determine how work gets done, and to maintain some inequities.
    — TIME, 19 Oct. 2023
  • One concern of health leaders is the prospect of cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act that could erode coverage for low-income patients and widen inequities.
    — Tina Reed, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
  • This move aimed to address the historical inequities in cannabis law enforcement.
    — Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2025

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