Equality
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Equality may refer to:

Social concepts
  • Egalitarianism
    Egalitarianism
    Egalitarianism is a trend of thought that favors equality of some sort among moral agents, whether persons or animals. Emphasis is placed upon the fact that equality contains the idea of equity of quality...

    , the belief that all/some people ought to be treated equally
  • Equality before the law
    Equality before the law
    Equality before the law or equality under the law or legal egalitarianism is the principle under which each individual is subject to the same laws....

  • Equal opportunity
    Equal opportunity
    Equal opportunity, or equality of opportunity, is a controversial political concept; and an important informal decision-making standard without a precise definition involving fair choices within the public sphere...

  • Equality of outcome
    Equality of outcome
    Equality of outcome, equality of condition, or equality of results is a controversial political concept. Although it is not always clearly defined, it is usually taken to describe a state in which people have approximately the same material wealth or, more generally, in which the general conditions...

     or equality of condition
  • Gender equality
    Gender equality
    Gender equality is the goal of the equality of the genders, stemming from a belief in the injustice of myriad forms of gender inequality.- Concept :...

  • Racial equality
    Racial equality
    Racial equality means different things in different contexts. It mostly deals with an equal regard to all races.It can refer to a belief in biological equality of all human races....

  • Social equality
    Social equality
    Social equality is a social state of affairs in which all people within a specific society or isolated group have the same status in a certain respect. At the very least, social equality includes equal rights under the law, such as security, voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, and the...


Mathematics and logic
  • Congruence (geometry)
    Congruence (geometry)
    In geometry, two figures are congruent if they have the same shape and size. This means that either object can be repositioned so as to coincide precisely with the other object...

  • Equality (mathematics)
  • Equality (relational operator), a common operator used in programming languages
  • Identity (philosophy)
    Identity (philosophy)
    In philosophy, identity, from , is the relation each thing bears just to itself. According to Leibniz's law two things sharing every attribute are not only similar, but are the same thing. The concept of sameness has given rise to the general concept of identity, as in personal identity and...

  • Logical equality
    Logical equality
    Logical equality is a logical operator that corresponds to equality in Boolean algebra and to the logical biconditional in propositional calculus...



Novels
  • Equality; or, A History of Lithconia
    Equality; or, A History of Lithconia
    Equality; or, A History of Lithconia is a utopian fantasy novel. It is the first American utopian novel. The author is unknown, though Donald H. Tuck speculates that it could be Dr. James Reynolds, a zealous liberal crusader. The novel was originally serialized in 8 parts in the weekly...

    , an 1802 American serial collected as a novel in 1837
  • Equality (novel), an 1897 novel by Edward Bellamy, sequel to Looking Backward


Film
  • Equality (film), a short film produced and directed by Al Sutton, MD in 2010, that documents the largest gender equality strike in U.S. History, The Women's Strike for Equality of 1970.


Book
  • Equality by RH Tawney (1931), an argument for an egalitarian society.


Places
  • Equality, Alabama located in Elmore County, Alabama
    Elmore County, Alabama
    Elmore County is a county of the State of Alabama. Its name is in honor of General John A. Elmore. As of 2010 its population was 79,303. Its county seat is Wetumpka.This county is part of the Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area.- History :...

  • Equality, Illinois
    Equality, Illinois
    Equality is a village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States. The population was 721 at the 2000 census. Near the village are two points of interest, the Crenshaw House and the Garden of the Gods Wilderness.-History:...


See also

  • Equal (disambiguation)
  • Equity (disambiguation)
  • Social inequality
    Social inequality
    Social inequality refers to a situation in which individual groups in a society do not have equal social status. Areas of potential social inequality include voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, the extent of property rights and access to education, health care, quality housing and other...

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