Instead of “equality” the catch word has now quietly evolved to “equity” (“Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signs agreement for federal health care model to promote equity and affordable care ...

Health equity and health equality both aim to improve outcomes and increase access to health services. Learn about their similarities and differences here.

But here, we are speaking of equity in an older sense of the word to refer to the notion of “fairness.” Usually, once people agree on equality as a mutually held value between two people (or ...

But here, we are speaking of equity in an older sense of the word to refer to the notion of “fairness.” Usually, once people agree on equality as a mutually held value between two people (or ...

The irony of the equity debate is that some people believe we must treat some students unequally to compel equality of outcome. In striving for equality of outcome it could leave many people without ...

As Mr. Riley states, equality can be interpreted as equal opportunity, while equity can assume an equal outcome, that a society’s wealth is owned in common and not primarily by those who create it.

Darrin M. McMahon is a professor of history at Dartmouth, and the author of Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea (Basic Books).

This panel in a widely distributed infographic is meant to illustrate “equality,” because everyone, tall or short, has been given the same crate.