Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is believed to contribute educational equality serve social inclusion democracy. Segregation in day-care centres counteracts these aims but has hardly been researched Germany so far. We describe ethnic/linguistic segregation at different regional levels (federal states as well East West more generally) using data from the Quality Study Socio-Economic Pa...

The discourse of participation in and about Brazil has contributed to the wider discourse of the public sphere. As anoccasion to revise the general concept of the public sphere, it carries its own limitations as well. The public sphereis an arena where citizens come together to discuss matters of general interest and through this discussion are thenable to influence the state. The c...

The debate over the hijab has become an arena of fervent discussion in Europe. The recent political developments have opened a discussion on the relationship between a “secularized” West and an Islamic world. At the heart of this debate is the juridical regulation of women’s body and whether a simple piece of cloth such as the veil should be allowed or prohibited. This article takes into consid...

Research on the social implications of e-mail has promoted the role of electronic communication channels in reaching social equality and dissipating gaps between the social classes. Other streams of research maintain that social status attributions are mentally salient, and that people continue to rely on social cues in electronic communication as a way of dealing with uncertainties and reducin...

This study investigated two variables: household inequality and adaptation to school closure during the COVID-19 lockdown in one city a middle-income country Sub-Sahara Africa. The findings suggest high social economic cost due digital gap particularly for less endowed households, strengthening view that contemporary increased technologybased curricula do favour those on positive side of gap, w...

It is the Policy of Cornell University actively to support equality of educational and employment opportunity. No person shall be denied admission to any educational program or activity or be denied employment on the basis of any legally prohibited discrimination committed to the maintenance of affirmative action programs which will assure the continuation of such equality of opportunity. Abstr...

BACKGROUND Men and women have different patterns of health. These differences between the sexes present a challenge to the field of public health. The question why women experience more health problems than men despite their longevity has been discussed extensively, with both social and biological theories being offered as plausible explanations. In this article, we focus on how gender equality...