{"id":3757,"date":"2021-12-21T15:10:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/?post_type=resource-toolkit&#038;p=3757"},"modified":"2022-01-04T11:57:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T16:57:39","slug":"equity-vs-equality-whats-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"resource-toolkit","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/resource-toolkit\/equity-vs-equality-whats-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Equity Vs Equality: What\u2019s the Difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This article explains the meanings of inequality, equality, equity, and justice as they can be applied to social systems and our understanding of them. This article explains the overlap between the inequality social institutions create and the equality that exists by allowing these systems to disproportionately favor people. In addition, this article explains how to create an equitable society to assist those disproportionately affected by inequality, and how to create a just society by fixing the systems themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6>TO REFLECT ON<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you able to define<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the difference between equity, equality, justice, and inequality?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why is it important to know the differences between these terms?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article explains the meanings of inequality, equality, equity, and justice as they can be applied to social systems and our understanding of them. This article explains the overlap between the inequality social institutions create and the equality that exists by allowing these systems to disproportionately favor people. In addition, this article explains how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19144,"featured_media":3759,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-toolkit\/3757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-toolkit"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resource-toolkit"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-toolkit\/3757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3898,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-toolkit\/3757\/revisions\/3898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}