Reflecting on the learning experience:
Inequality is a fundamental issue for human development. Extreme inequalities in opportunity and life chance have a direct bearing on human capabilities. Deep human development disparities persist between rich people and poor people, men and women, rural and urban areas and different regions and groups. These inequalities create mutually reinforcing structures of disadvantage that follow people through life cycles and are transmitted across generations. This is wrong for both intrinsic and instrumental reasons. Inequality violates basic precepts of social justice, but it is also bad for growth, bad for democracy and bad for social cohesion. Social workers have a responsibility to challenge discrimination and promote social and economic justice. To fulfil this responsibility, it must be understood how discrimination exists and the detrimental affect it has on both the psychosocial functioning and well-being of individuals. Social workers should act to eliminate and prevent discrimination of individuals, groups, and/or communities based on “race, ethnicity, national origin, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, political belief, religion, immigration status, or mental or physical disability. Discrimination is an act or actions, intentional or unintentional, that devalues, humiliates, or negates the rights to access information, opportunities, and/or resources of individuals or targeted groups. Discrimination grants greater access to opportunities and preferential treatment to advantaged groups while limiting or denying opportunities and mistreating targeted groups. In this there are a part of the reflective report on diversity (United Nations Development Programme: Human Development Report Office, 2005). Firstly, oppression is when you mistreat of group over another for a specific reason. People who do experience oppression are often denied access to basic constitutional guarantees as a result of membership in a group based on any identification, such as race, age or gender. Recent political and economic developments are associated in the delivery of health and social care have led managers and professional social workers to recognise the importance and the links between problem solving and decision-making (S. Markwell, 2019; N.L. Hunt, 2016).
Supporting evidence: This evidence can be found in the Reflective Report on Diversity, on pages 3 & 4 highlighted in blue and could also be found in the following link.
CONSULTED REFERENCES
Kendra. P Deloach McCutcheon, 2014. Encyclopedia of Social Work (Discrimination).
Reflective report on Diversity.
S. Markwell. 2019, N.L. Hunt. 2016, The impact of political, economic, socio-cultural, environmental and other external influences. Health Knowledge.
Sheltercare, 2021 (Source Unknown).
United Nations Development Programme: Human Development Report Office, 2005.