They face a pay gap at work, or higher premiums for health insurance, or inadequate options for family leave.
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Then we can pull out all of our familiar excuses of being too busy, overwhelmed, or inadequate to face the challenge.
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Schools can now be rated either outstanding, good, satisfactory or inadequate.
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However, Americans with no or inadequate health insurance do have an alternative before then to waiting for an altruistic aristocrat to ante up: they can beg.
Others, such as awful labour relations, poor management, or inadequate schools and technical colleges, are more plausible, but none seems bad enough to take all the blame.
Their fridges were classed as adequate or inadequate if they had rotten food or produce that past its best before date, or empty if it had less than three different food products.
Unfortunately the toxic combination of out of date or inadequate information and biased advice means that women will continue to face their birth with huge gaps in their knowledge leading to unnecessary trauma.
The Workplace Survey identified that while only 22 per cent of managers claim to be unhappy with their immediate physical environment, concerns about a lack of quiet space, under-equipped meeting rooms or inadequate meeting space were high.
They included valuations on its own tax filings of received donations far in excess of those listed by donating charities on their own tax returns documents, confusion over the identity of some individual donors responsible for tens of millions of dollars of goods, and insufficient or inadequate paperwork.
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That is held to result when the market suffers from inadequate or inaccurate information delivery, inadequate or insufficient competition, principal-agent problems (where agents fail to represent the interests of their principals), and externalities (where market actors fail to bear the costs of their actions or choices), among other problems.
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If demand for a particular good or service is inadequate, then the price of that good or service will fall until demand equals supply.
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With not enough police, and inadequate or nonexistent medical facilities, you can imagine the devastation.
Not all staff training was up-to-date and systems for professional supervision or appraisal were inadequate.
Clearly the electorate believes the current level of oversight to be inadequate or at best inadequately enforced.
The Welsh government has responded to Dr Samuel's comments by stating that "inadequate or unsafe care is never acceptable".
The academy will also publish an "older person's nursing checklist" so that the public can challenge inadequate or poor care.
The items are undeliverable because the address is inadequate or the recipient has moved, and there is no return address.
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On the other hand, traditional health practices have the potential to harm when they are applied in an inadequate or uncontrolled manner.
But free markets are inadequate or fail altogether in the allocation of public goods, in addressing systemic and catastrophic risks and economic externalities.
In each case we seem to prize large quantities of failed, inadequate or poor work as a route to a small number of successes.
They list investor protection, intellectual property, and inadequate or inconsistent laws and regulations as areas of particular concern in many Asian and Latin American countries.
Critics have been less positive, with some Labour Party lawmakers concerned that security will be inadequate or that the prominent military presence will make visitors uncomfortable.
But free markets are inadequate or fail altogether in allocating public goods efficiently and effectively, in addressing systemic and catastrophic risks, and in dealing with economic externalities.
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Critics have been less positive, with some Labour Party lawmakers concerned that security will be inadequate or that visitors will be made uncomfortable by a prominent military presence.
Talent management in India should be seen for what it is: a risk management strategy against the business impact of having inadequate or insufficient human resources to fulfill organizational objectives.
That is no less damning a criticism, reflecting the toll on the alliance's fighting capability of inadequate or poorly conceived defence spending by too many of its members (see table).
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Primary and preventative health care alternatives are often inadequate or inaccessible to a population where even an hour of missed income can mean the difference between food on the table or not.
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Finally, investing in hedge funds can pose operational risk: risk of investment loss from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems, or problems with external service providers rather than an unsuccessful investment strategy.
The Bank of Commerce had lent huge amounts backed by inadequate or no collateral, according to a report by the Bank of Thailand, the central bank, which was leaked to opposition legislators in early May.
What we need to learn from this experience, it seems to me, is the importance of making sure that, yes, the parents are very much part of the picture, supporting parents when they are doing the right thing, but helping parents who are inadequate or who won't do the right thing, to change.
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