>might be better to talk about equity, not equality, and the differences there.
>
>equity refers to fairness, whereas equality refers to sameness.
I'm reminded of South African finance minister Trevor Manuel, at the World Economic Forum. As I reported at the time:
At 10:13 AM -0500 2/4/02, Doug Henwood wrote:
>And, during his presentation, he made a point of distinguishing
>equity from equality. I went up to him afterwards to ask to develop
>that theme. He said something like this: "There are difference
>conceptions of equality to start with. There's equality of
>opportunity and equality of outcome. But equity is about creating
>stakeholders. For example, both employers and employees have a stake
>in good labor practices." To which I said, "This sounds more like
>perception than any material reality." He said, "It's all those
>things. It's all those things."
Doug