Equality in the United States

Equality Definition

Likeness in possessing the same rights, and being liable to the same duties. This definition of Equality is based on the The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary . See also Equality in the legal Dictionaries.

Equality in Foreign Legal Encyclopedias

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Equality in the Professions

Equality in the Legal Professions

The legal profession ranked highest in the 2014 Corporate Equality Index.

The legal profession ranked highest among 31 industries included in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2014 Corporate Equality Index, with 82 major U.S. law firms that participated in the survey scoring 100 percent. The index scored 734 big companies according to their nondiscrimination policies; health benefits for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees and their dependents; and organizational commitment to diversity.

• 304 Surveyed businesses nationwide scoring 100
• 9 California-based law firms scoring 100
• 17 States, including California, that prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity

Note: The foundation invited the 1,000 largest U.S. companies (as listed by Fortune magazine) and the 200 top-grossing U.S. law firms (as listed by AmLaw) to participate in the survey; additional businesses volunteered to participate. All data was self-reported.

Difference and Constitutional Equality

United States Constitution

According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled “DIFFERENCE AND CONSTITUTIONAL EQUALITY”, Central to United States liberal tradition is the conviction that we share a universal human nature, from which follows our common entitlement, or right, to be treated with respect and dignity. It is central to our commitment to the rule of law, and to our constitutional tradition. (read more about Constitutional law entries here).

Self-Esteem and Delinquency in relation to Crime and Race

Self-Esteem and Delinquency is included in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (1), beginning with: Kiri Davis was 16 in 2005 when she reproduced a famous “doll test” in her amateur documentary, A Girl Like Me. Her documentary showed that 15 out of 21 Black children (71%) preferred to play with a White doll, commonly identifying the Black doll as the “bad” doll and the White one as the “nice” or “good” doll. Davis’s results virtually mirror those of Kenneth Clark’s doll test, conducted in the 1940s and cited in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Clark’s telling results were used by the Supreme Court to reject the concept of “separate but equal” and to officially overturn racial segregation in public schools. Although Clark died unaware of Davis’s recent findings, he predicted that present-day results probably would not vary. Unfortunately, he was correct.

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Notes and References

1. Entry about Self-Esteem and Delinquency in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime

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