Disparity

Disparity and disparities may refer to:

in healthcare:

  • Health disparities

in finance:

  • Income disparity between females and males.
    • Male–female income disparity in the United States
    • Income gender gap
  • Economic inequality
  • Income inequality metrics
  • International inequality
    • Income inequality in the United States
    • Wealth inequality in the United States

in science:

  • Stereopsis
  • Binocular disparity, binocular cue to determine depth or distance of an object
  • The disparity of a biota (ecology) or other group refers to the variety of morphological forms represented
  • In ecology disparity refers to the number of different guilds occupying an ecosystem

in social science:

  • Social inequality
  • Social equality
  • Social stratification
  • Curvilinear Disparity is a political theory which posits that the rank and file members of a party tend to be more ideological than both the leadership of that party and its voters.

Famous quotes containing the word disparity:

    I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)