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Ethnicity --- Race discrimination --- Ethnicité --- Discrimination raciale

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Higher education systems in many countries are undergoing significant changes in response to variety of local, national, and international pressures. Among these, the shift from elitism to the provision of mass higher education; increased impact of internationalization and globalization, which are increasingly blurring national boundaries; increased competition among universities for limited resources to support higher education sector; the impact of technology and the knowledge economy; and the continuing quest educational for equity. Given what we already know about the position of women in the academy, what is so significant about the account of women represented in this book? Lessons from colleagues in Western universities provide important models for understanding some aspects of gendered identity of women scholars; however, a deeper understanding of educational experiences for women in countries such as China, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, may potentially offer innovative insights to our current understanding of gender within education. In this age of globalization, there are common themes that transcend the experiences of women across very different social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. Therefore, accounts of women scholars represented in this volume demonstrate that the experiences women scholars are not isolated incidents but global phenomena, and may offer alternative approaches to problems that seem insurmountable to women at the bottom of the professional ladder. Further, the experiences of non-Western women scholars are important because it is only through an understanding of their educational conditions that institutions can implement policies and practices to respond effectively, and to create work environments that are supportive to professional aspirations of these scholars. Effective policies can only be attained when there is a clear understanding of the barriers and challenges female scholars. Given that gender concerns, especially in non-Western countries, have historically occupied and to some extent continue to occupy a marginal position in the daily operations of institutions of higher education, it is critical to highlight their potentially harmful effects not only on women scholars, but on institutions as well.

Discrimination in higher education

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Provides a global picture of job-related discrimination, citing both progress and failures in the struggle to fight discrimination ranging from traditional forms such as sex, race or religion, to newer forms based on age, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status and disability.

Discrimination in employment.

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« Il ne convient plus de penser et d'agir en termes spécifiques pour des groupes tenus pour spécifiques. Il faut s'appliquer à rendre plus confortable, à humaniser pour tous, à partir du principe universel d'accessibilité et du concept de qualité de vie. Voilà ce qu'il importe de conscientiser : "Nous sommes faits pour vivre ensemble : ce qui est facilitant pour les uns est bénéfique pour les autres". Qu'ils soient architecturaux, sociaux, pédagogiques, etc., les plans inclinés sont universellement profitables. Quel est le défi, à la fois singulier et universel, qui sous-tend cette réflexion ? Il est simple, il est immense : faire droit à la singularité, même dans ses expressions parfois extrêmes ; autoriser chacun à apporter au bien commun sa biographie originale ; se donner mutuellement, par le lien social, une appartenance à l'universel ; admettre que la vulnérabilité est à la racine, au centre, au plus intime de tout être et de toute existence. Impossible d'approcher et de comprendre la réalité existentielle que constitue le handicap sans l'inscrire dans la chaîne culturelle universelle, sans la replacer dans "l'ordinaire". Et pour peu que nous parvenions à dessiller nos yeux, c'est l'ordinaire qui finira par nous paraître exceptionnel. » Charles Gardou

Discrimination against people with disabilities.