Equity - Fairness

Fairness

  • Equity (law), a branch of jurisprudence in common law jurisdictions
  • Equity (economics), the study of fairness in economics
  • Educational equity, the study and achievement of fairness in education
  • Intergenerational equity, equality and fairness in relationships between people in different generations (including those yet to be born).
  • Equity theory, on the relations and perceptions of fairness in distributions of resources within social and professional situations.
  • Employment equity (Canada), policy requiring or encouraging preferential treatment in employment practices for certain designated groups
  • Health equity, fairness and justice in health and healthcare

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Famous quotes containing the word fairness:

    “These men ask for just the same thing—fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “He was one whose glory was an inner glory, one who placed culture above prosperity, fairness above profit, generosity above possessions, hospitality above comfort, courtesy above triumph, courage above safety, kindness above personal welfare, honor above success.”
    —Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 1 (1962)