MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'equal opportunity'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:50:17 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3342644&cid=t_144291_87_f&fid=38368&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDisruptiveWomenInHealthCare%2F%7E3%2Frdl097N3SC4%2F This article first appeared in the Be Inkandescent E-Zine. Related posts:This International Women’s Day Let’s Aim to End Maternal Deaths Celebrate International Women’s Day with CARE Disruptive Women Wishes You a Happy, Healthy New Year (Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care) Disruptive Women in Health Care blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3342644 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:23:34 +0100 3342644 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1531913&cid=t_144291_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F06%2F20%2Fthe-legal-situation-of-race-equality-abstract%2F Ivan Bodensteiner has posted his paper, “The Supreme Court as the Major Barrier to Racial Equality” on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * This Article suggests that the U.S. Supreme Court, through its decisions in cases alleging race discrimination, stands as a major barrier to racial equality in the United States. There are several aspects of its decisions that lead to this result. Between 1868 and 1954, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, while it had been interpreted to strike down a few blatant forms of de jure discrimination, allowed government to separate the races based on the separate but equal fiction. Beginning in 1954, Brown and a series of subsequent decisions attacked this fiction and for a period of nearly twenty years the Court was intent... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1531913 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:04:40 +0100 1531913 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=845720&cid=t_144291_109_f&fid=34800&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FClinicalPsychologyAndPsychiatryACloserLook%2F%7E3%2F152949987%2Fequal-opportunity-for-mormons-only.html An alert reader passed along a job advertisement that blew my mind. It's a fairly standard job description for a faculty position in psychology at Brigham Young University. At the end of the ad is the equal opportunity statement, which reads as follows: Brigham Young University is an Equal Opportunity Employer sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and requires observance of Church standards. Preference is given to members of the sponsoring Church.So does this mean that whether you are a white Mormon or a black Mormon, you have equal opportunity, but if you're not Mormon, you're screwed? This does not sound very "equal opportunity" to me. Am I missing something? (Source: Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: A Closer Look) Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: A Closer Look blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=845720 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:17:00 +0100 845720 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=845769&cid=t_144291_145_f&fid=35710&url=http%3A%2F%2Fksdescartin.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F05%2Fgrand-rounds-volume-3-number-50%2F Parallel Universes hosts this week’s virtual Grand Rounds. My post on Diversity was mentioned under Health News, Policies, Advice, & Products. Thanks, Dr. Emer! (Source: the story of healing) the story of healing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=845769 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:04:56 +0100 845769