The low status of the vocational path means that few able youngsters are tempted down it.
Because of the low status of women in our societies, I think the girls' education is not always valued.
In the end, even inadvertent exclusion feels like a sign of low status.
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Correspondents say Uttar Pradesh is one of India's most lawless states where women are accorded a very low status.
Before working together, participants had bad impressions of their neurotic colleagues, predicting they would have low contribution and low status within the group.
The low status of some teachers and unequal working conditions infringe on their rights, while discouraging talented young people from joining and remaining in the teaching profession.
What it seems to boil down to is this: being left out of the loop is perceived as a signal that one has low status or standing in the group.
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They must be so discouraged by their own low status in society that they seek a sex-selective abortion, permit or commit female infanticide, or neglect to feed and keep healthy daughters.
Historians, such as the eminent Yukio Hattori, have argued that such apparitions reflected the low status of women in feudal Japan, not to mention the belief that women were thought to be more spiteful and attached to life than men.
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This is because such countries have moved furthest along the demographic transition from poor, high-fertility status to richer, low-fertility status.
Their relatively high residential segregation also is partly attributable to their low socioeconomic status, said Daniel Cornfield, a Vanderbilt University professor who studies immigration.
Isolation, loneliness and low social status can harm a person's subjective sense of well-being, as well as his or her intellectual achievement, immune function and health.
Matsuda argues that discrimination against both foreign and domestic accents, intentional or unintentional, can hurt people with a "low-status" accent when they're looking for a job.
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In other countries this would be attributed to their willingness to take on low-status secretarial positions - but in Mongolia women work in cities because they're also more highly educated.
"She says the photo might be of a kidnapper whom she had taken to be a low-status guard, but couldn't be sure, " the Monitor article, slated for Friday editions, said.
Teenagers and young adults of low socioeconomic status who have a history of in-depth arts involvement earn better grades and have higher rates of college enrollment and attainment than those that are not exposed to the arts.
In particular, low-status individuals showed high levels of activity in genes associated with the production of various immune-related cells and chemical signalling factors, as well as those to do with inflammation (a general immune response that involves tissue swelling and increased immune-cell activity in the affected area).
His Equity Foundation partners with the bank on programs aimed at improving the socioeconomic status of low-income people.
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Most-favored-nation status offers low tariffs and treats countries as normal trading partners.
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And because of its low price and icon status, Tata's new model should also swipe customers from Hero Honda and other two- and three-wheel manufacturers like Bajaj Auto and TVS Motor.
The Bombay (Mumbai) meeting is likely to see the anti-globalisation activists focusing on Hinduism's centuries-old social hierarchy, or the caste system, which relegates nearly one-sixth of India's one billion population to the status of low castes known as Dalits, or the oppressed.
But there are fears that the failure of the budget talks could harm the Netherlands' prized AAA credit rating status and the low yield on government bonds.
We are expecting some intensification and right now, most of the models and the NHC forecast - the National Hurricane Center forecast is calling for Ike to regain major status as a low-end category three.
"We are currently in a sweet spot where the OMT is inactive but is standing by reassuringly and everybody is benefiting from the status quo of low peripheral yields in some way, " Richard Crossley, a strategist at Citigroup, said in a note.
Some speculate that Ispat and other capital intensive manufacturers will be relegated to the status of being the low-margin drones of others' supply chains.
The European Union, for example, has set the bar deliberately low for Bosnia to apply for candidate status, in recognition of its unique complexity.
Whether or not they truly believe this, Progressives definitely covet the high-status, high-paying, low-accountability jobs that regulatory agencies provide.
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Women are the most important influences upon their children's health and the status of women in India is notoriously low.
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