Equity is absolutely not the same as equality, but they play for the same team. Equitable solutions require us to understand history, context, and cultural relativism.

Much of the historical narrative and cultural consensus has focused on the struggle for equality:...

• In education, many educational institutions have tried to take an equitable approach into their own hands by ensuring their student bodies are more diverse.
• Affirmative action is an early form of equity, in which the powers that be acknowledge that not all employees faced the same tr...

You can immediately appreciate the difference between the 3 people in the picture, who are the same on each side: a grown man, a child, and a toddler. Each of them wants to see the baseball game, but two of them are not tall enough to see over the fence.

The image on the left

• Equality doesn't magically lead to better outcomes
• Equal measures require understanding history, context, and cultural relativism
• They also ask us to consider individuals as just that: individual human beings with specific needs and backgrounds
• In theory, equitable so...

• Red-lining patterns from the 1930s to designate which neighbourhoods were “uninsurable” for housing loans still exist in many poor, majority-Black neighbourhoods.
• The wage gap between white and Black men is effectively the same as it was in the 1950s, when you adjust for the numbers ...