Do equal life chances provide equal results? Please explain your answer.
What will be an ideal response?
Equal life chances do not guarantee or mean equal results. Equal life chances mean an equal chance to succeed. Providing equal life chances requires addressing the needs of the poor generally as well as target groups such as women, children, and ethnic and racial minorities. A combination of programs and policies to guarantee human and civil rights, eliminate extreme income inequality and extreme poverty, provide social welfare remedies to supplement labor market weakness
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Advertising aimed at the "new woman" places additional stresses on women and at the same time upholds male privilege
a. true b. false
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a. 25 percent b. 50 percent c. 75 percent d. 90 percent