Hour one was devoted to a conversation about institutional discrimination in the UAE!
How can business ask a women if she is going to get pregnant before they hire her?
How can we hire based on age or colour?
How can we pay people for equal work different wages based on colour and nationality?
Yet multinationals here in the UAE do this!
Why?
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Monday, June 04, 2007
Being a bachelor in the UAE!
Well there is no shortage of opinion when it comes to the plight of the bachelor in the UAE!
So what is the issue?
It has been suggested that over 50% of the UAE population is SINGLE!
And this 50% of the population, mostly male, is not being treated like everyone else and why not?
Part of the problem is people taking advantage of singles!
Some singles find themselves living in villas, with 30 others, paying up to 800 dirhams a month for bed space!
Others are saying that the problem the UAE is facing with singles is rapid URBANIZATION.
Urbanization can and will create a ghetto system and will see a minority gaining a popular foot hold over others.
Some say that the issue is simply discrimination!
Is the best thing in the case of singles to put them in separate areas to live?
It was suggested that this may be more than a simple moral issue!
What we are dealing with today is RAW CAPITALISM and maybe when all the dust settles the state will step in and solve the inequities that are the product of development!
What do you think?
So what is the issue?
It has been suggested that over 50% of the UAE population is SINGLE!
And this 50% of the population, mostly male, is not being treated like everyone else and why not?
Part of the problem is people taking advantage of singles!
Some singles find themselves living in villas, with 30 others, paying up to 800 dirhams a month for bed space!
Others are saying that the problem the UAE is facing with singles is rapid URBANIZATION.
Urbanization can and will create a ghetto system and will see a minority gaining a popular foot hold over others.
Some say that the issue is simply discrimination!
Is the best thing in the case of singles to put them in separate areas to live?
It was suggested that this may be more than a simple moral issue!
What we are dealing with today is RAW CAPITALISM and maybe when all the dust settles the state will step in and solve the inequities that are the product of development!
What do you think?
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