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You mean equality.

• a4isms 5y ago
  In this case, “equity” is the term I was after. Equality means treated the same as everyone else. Equity means participation, with the same roots as when we talk about common stock being “equity.” If management excluded everyone in sales from meetings regardless of gender, the author might have equality but not equity. Whereas if management ignored everyone in sales but listened to the author, the author would have equity without equality.
  • garmaine 5y ago
    That's not how the terms have been used in the past decade. "Equality" has always meant a level playing field (everyone judged based on what they bring to the table), whereas "equity" in present-day discourse means everyone is literally treated the same regardless of merit. If you want people to listen to your ideas at the table and accept or reject them based on merit, that's equality. Everyone starts off from an equal standing. If you want your one vote regardless of what people think or how grand or stupid your ideas are, that's equity. Among N people you always get 1/Nth the attention, reward, impact, etc.