Issue Unfinished emancipation and continuing discrimination

Summary

The report credits the long history of emancipation of women, LGBTIQA+ people, people of colour and groups in relative poverty with major improvements in education, language skills, labour participation and entrepreneurship. Yet emancipation is not complete, and ongoing discrimination keeps a range of inequalities in place. Social forces and cultural gender relations make further emancipation of women harder, and people of colour face discrimination on many fronts. The number of people living in poverty in the Netherlands has fallen over the years, but poverty in certain groups remains hard to solve despite various schemes and benefits. After decades of meritocratic policy, the report explains, society tolerates the remaining inequality less and less, treating it as an unwanted rift and protesting against it strongly.