Equity vs. Equality

Equality is 

• Fairness and justice

• Sameness

Equity is 

• Fairness and justice

• Samness

Giving more nutritious and additional quantity of food to the pregnant and lactating (breastfeeding) women and adolescent girls, based on their dietary requirement.

• Equality 

• Equity

Giving equal quantity of food to all the family members including pregnant and lactating (breastfeeding) women, and adolescent girls, irrespective of their nutritional requirement and need.

• Equality 

• Equity 

Arranging extra classes and giving special attention to the academically weak student in order reduce his/her existing educational achievement gap and improve his/her education and classroom/school performance.

• Equality 

• Equity

Giving equal attention and equal effort by the teacher to all the student in the classroom/ school

• Equality

• Equity 

When distributing a pair of shoes to the football players, giving a right pair of shoes to all the players as per their feet size.

• Equality 

• Equity

When distributing a pair of shoes to the football players, giving same size of shoes to all the players without any concern to their feet size.

• Equality

• Equity 

Difference in salary, benefits and rewards to the employees as per their work performance, expertise and specialty.

• Equity

• Equality 

Same salary, benefits and rewards to all the employees irrespective of the difference in their work performance.

• Equality

• Equity