Inequality can never be solved because opportunities given to everyone can never be equal. For one to succeed in his career and future life, opportunities are essential as they provide him with the pathway to strive for greater height. In oreder to get into the job you want or to be promoted, talent and capability are not enough. you need the equal opportunity as others to compete with them. However, in today's job market, we can see a lot of people are not given this equal opportunity. In 2010, the unemployment rate in America was 7.5% for Asians, 8.7% for non-Hispanic Whites, 12.5% for Hispanics, and 16% for Blacks. This shows relatively low unemployment for Asians and Whites while relatively high unemployment for Hispanics and Blacks. It is thus more difficult for those who are treated unequally to have the same social status and standard of living as others. Apart from job opportunities, opportunities for education are also impossible to be distrubuted evenly. Although Singapore government are trying to provide every students with equal education opportunites by giving subsidies or scholarship, the different family backgrounds of everyone students inevitably result in unequal distribution of education resources. For those who are born in a relatively wealthy family, they can get extra tuition or even have the opportunity to study overseas. It is self-evident who will have a higher probability of getting success in the future.Thus in equality can never be solved as they are never competing fairly and equally.

The differences in financial status of nations has led to economic inequality in the world today. While, the United Nations has identified education to be the key solution to this problem and claim that education will solve the inequality, it is evident that the the sdolutions in itself has its loopholes. By providing citizens with education, they will be able to find higher paying jobs, earn a stable income, support their families and thus fight against the vicious poverty cycle. The country too, will thus progress as higher earning workforce would equate to an improved economy. Citizens can also be educated on sanitation and hygiene, making way for a healthier and more productive workforce.For example, the United Nations Development Programme was set up in African countries like Uganda where natives were taught on proper sanitation habits. However, the issue here is that education has to be provided by Developed Countries who might not fully equip the poore nations in order to safeguard their national interest. For example,although America introduced the Green Revolution project in India which allowed farmers to increase their agricultural productivity, they were not fully taught on the types of meterials to use in order to maintain their dependence on the American agriculturalists.Moreover, educating people is a long term process and during this time, the developed countries will further grow and progress, thus resulting in a permanent rrich-poor divide. Therefore, while measures have been taken to reduce the inequality, they have not and will not be entirely successful due to the need for continuous progression as well as safeguarding national interests especially for Developed nations.

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Gender discrimination can never be eliminated. Nowadays, the discrimination against female still exists in many parts of the world. Despite campaigns against gender discrimination are proceeding, the biased attitudes towards women in certain country seems never decrease. One reason for this may be due to some essential policies may indirectly lead to discrimination against woman.China’s one child policy has heightened the disdain for female infants; abortion, neglect, abandonment, and infanticide have been known to occur to female infants. The result of such family planning has been the disparate ratio of 114 males for every 100 females among babies from birth through children four years of age. Similarly, the number of girls born and surviving in India is significantly less compared with the number of boys, due to the disproportionate numbers of female fetuses being aborted and baby girls deliberately neglected and left to die. In some regions the ratio of births of girls to boys is as low as 300 to 1000.

Gender inequality can never be solved as cultural stereotypes have long been engrained in both men and women, and these stereotypes are so common that it has become a norm for one to consider women to be inferior to men. For example, India accounts for 19% of all global live births and 27% of all maternal deaths. The deaths of young girls in India exceed those of young boys by over 300,000 each year and every 6th infant death is specifically due to gender discrimination. Due to this disparity between gender, women lost the right to live as compared to men. In addition, although measures have been implemented to relieve this problem, little effect has taken place. For example, in China, new laws have guaranteed women to get the opportunity to politics and to work. But in reality, female graduates still find it difficult to get a job, with 21% of the female population remaining jobless in contrast to 6% of the male population. Therefore, despite having many measures and plans to tackle the problem of gender disparity, gender inequality has not been solved to a considerable extent. Chen JiaQi (1) 09/12

While proponents of financial equality firmly believes that inequality can be solved, I feel otherwise about this issue. Income disparity, also known as the gap between the rich and poor, in a society may be detrimental and may be reduced, but it is yet unavoidable, even in the most ideal of cases.

We live in a Capitalist society, a system where people may acquire wealth and properties for their own ownership, and because of Capitalism and its values, there will always be the gap between the rich and the poor. An influential thinker, Marxist, has tried to solve inequality through the means of Communism, where everyone get equal amount of rewards no matter what jobs they had, but his idea revolved around the basis that all humans are pure, uncorrupted, and could not be tempted into being greedy. But that is simply untrue, and is certainly unattainable. We seen it in the Soviet Union, where corruption and inefficiency of the market brought down the mighty state down to its knees. We are seeing it in North Korea, where it's state is extremely run-down. Because of such human qualities, we will not bring society to true equality even with Communism, let alone Capitalism.

Even if proponents obstinately argue that Communism is able to help solve inequality, will every rich people distribute their wealth to the poor? Will every professionals be willing to work if their pay were the same as a roadside sweeper? That's a thought we have to decide in this debate about whether inequality can be solved.

Education acts as a leveller to close up the gap of inequality. It aims to develop reasoning about perennial questions, master the methods of scientific inquiry and teaches pupils how to think. It provides everyone an equal opportunity to succeed. However, students from better backgrounds could receive guidance from tuition and research have shown that tuition fees in countries like Ontario have increased by 224 percent over the past 20 years which made it more unaffordable for the lower income families. Thus, some students would not be able to attend tuition and are at disadvantage. At different starting lines, it is likely for the student who have undergone tuition to do better academically. There are also some exceptions whereby students who are financially deficient perform better. For example, H Sharanya Pillai who was from Riverside Secondary who scored nine A1s during 2010 O levels without the help of tuition. She comes from humble background. According to a report, her father is a security guard, her mother a part–time retail assistant. With a monthly household income of $1,300, it is no surprise that tuition was probably something she did not even consider, but she managed her time well and succeeded. She even did the Chinese Special Programme where she got an A1. Although tuition could not determine whether a student perform better, it is certain that tuition would help. Thus, inequality in the opportunity of getting help on studies still exist as it is impossible for all to have tuitions due to the difference in income gap. Hence, inequality can never be solved. Tan Si Ying Madeline 09/12

P: Inequality can never be solved since it does not only affect adults but also the inequality of opportunities of teenagers. It is a prevailing issue in the world today as the political system directs more money to health care for the elderly than spending on child welfare slides, as stated in the New York Times.

E: The inequality among adults – race, gender, education and birthplace contributes greatly to the inequality of opportunities among teenagers today. This heightened segregation shows how inequality can be passed on from generations to generations, being deep-rooted and long-lasting.

E: Published in the New York Times on 9 July, it states that affluent parents invest more money in their children. Over the last 40 years upper-income parents have increased the amount they spend on their kids’ enrichment activities, like tutoring and extra curriculars, by $5,300 a year. The financially stressed lower classes have only been able to increase their investment by $480, adjusted for inflation.

E: As shown in the example, the opportunities of teenagers on the quality and quantity of education they undergo are greatly dependent on their parental income, which will thereby further limit the future opportunities of teenagers who come from less affluent families. For instance, with less desirable education, the future employment opportunities of teenagers is bound to be affected, leading to lower income due to restriction to lower paid jobs. The social status of teenagers from less well-off family will always be lower than that of teenagers from better family background and birthplace and the cycle of inequality repeats.

L: Thus, the inequality of basic opportunities for teenagers is complex and not easily disentangled, resulting in inequality being an issue that will exists forever.

Gender issues are faced by many people across the world, where males are often regard as those of higher status. Restrictions are imposed on women which often lead to various dire consequences for their health and education or social and economic participation. Indeed, "gender inequality is such a tough beast to crack because there are so many contributing factors". Resolving of the gender inequality is almost an impossible mission as it is not purely a mathematical complication where solution is often available. Gender inequality revolves around the traditional beliefs that are strongly etched in the religious people. Attempts to solve gender inequality have been done. However, to many people's disappointment, they do not work. In America, women are only half as likely as men to receive a pension, which will be half the amount awarded to men.

Inequality can be seen in the case of racial and religious differences, as a result of different rights being granted to different religious group and the society tend to favour some racial group. despite efforts have been made to condenm this favourism, racial inequality remains in the U.S. People of color continue to experience high rates of poverty, significant unemployment, police profiling and repressive incarceration. School segregation is a continuing concern among race scholars as well. In the case of Sri Lanka, after 1970, the government introduced new university admission criteria. Tamil students had to score higher marks than the Sinhalese students to enter the same courses in the unversities. A fixed number of places in the university were also reserved for the Sinhalese. Admission was no longer based solely on academic results. This system is still in place today. Because of the new university amission criteria, the percentage of Tamils going into university after college has fallen, as seen from a sharp decrease in the number of Tamil students who were admitted into the medical course from 50% in 1969 to less than 10% in 2002. This causes great unhappiess between the Tanil and the Sinhalese as the former find themselves unable to climb up the social ladder as compared to the Sinhalese and they were not given equal opportunities to succeed in the future. Despite efforts have been made to ease the situation in Sri Lanka, the system is still in place today, shoing that racial and religious can never be solved completely in the society.

Economic inequality can never be solved as the gap between the rich and the poor will always exist. In fact, this gap is widening with the recent economic growth. The rich tend to ride on the growth while the poor remains poor, resulting in a widening income gap. The Gini coefficient, which is commonly used as a measure of inequality of income or wealth, reflects this fact in most developed countries. Technology is one of the causes of the growing income gap as it raises the demand for skilled workers, hence resulting in a difference in salary between the skilled and unskilled workers and the presence of economic inequality in developed countries. Education is said to be the solution to resolving economic inequality. The less educated has a lower probability in becoming skilled workers and achieving higher wages, while the highly educated ones tend to climb up the corporate ladder faster. However, not everyone has a flair in studying, be it science or the arts. Therefore, it is almost impossible to ensure that everyone has a minimum education level. Hence, economic inequality can never be solved.

Gender inequality is prevalent in the society and little can be done to solve this even after such a long time. We must admit that each gender has their own strength and weaknesses. Women can accomplish most of what men can however there are others that are physically or biologically impossible. Men have their own weaknesses as well. Men have giant weaknesses of fragile egos as most of them would never acknowledge women's ability as they believe that they are definitely more superior than them. As we are in a male dominated society, women face greater handicap than men in terms of promotion in work and occupation. Even when there is relatively little difference in basic facilities including schooling, the opportunities of higher education may be far fewer for young women than for young men. In many areas of Afghanistan, girls are often taken out of school when they hit puberty. Literacy rates among young Afghan women are disturbingly low: only 18 per cent of women between 15 and 24 can read. While the total number of children enrolled in primary schools is increasing tremendously, the percentage of female students is not. As such, gender inequality can never be solved as people still believe that men are suppose to dominate the society. This then resulted in a cycle where parents start to yearn for sons than daughters and give their son the best as they will be the one in the workfoce in future.