Inequality may refer to:
Economics
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Attention inequality
Attention is the behavioral and cognitive process of selectively concentrating on a discrete aspect of information, whether considered subjective or objective, while ignoring other perceivable information. William James (1890) wrote that "Atte ...
, unequal distribution of attention across users, groups of people, issues in etc. in attention economy
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Economic inequality
There are wide varieties of economic inequality, most notably income inequality measured using the distribution of income (the amount of money people are paid) and wealth inequality measured using the distribution of wealth (the amount of we ...
, difference in economic well-being between population groups
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Spatial inequality
Spatial inequality refers to the unequal distribution of income and resources across geographical regions. Attributable to local differences in infrastructure, geographical features (presence of mountains, coastlines, particular climates, etc.) an ...
, the unequal distribution of income and resources across geographical regions
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Income inequality metrics, used to measure income and economic inequality among participants in a particular economy
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International inequality, economic differences between countries
Healthcare
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Health equity
Health equity arises from access to the social determinants of health, specifically from wealth, power and prestige. Individuals who have consistently been deprived of these three determinants are significantly disadvantaged from health inequitie ...
, the study of differences in the quality of health and healthcare across different populations
Mathematics
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Inequality (mathematics)
In mathematics, an inequality is a relation which makes a non-equal comparison between two numbers or other mathematical expressions. It is used most often to compare two numbers on the number line by their size. There are several different n ...
, a relation between two values when they are different
Social sciences
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Educational inequality
Educational inequality is the unequal distribution of academic resources, including but not limited to; school funding, qualified and experienced teachers, books, and technologies, to socially excluded communities. These communities tend to be his ...
, the unequal distribution of academic resources to socially excluded communities
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Gender inequality, unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals due to their gender
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Participation inequality, the phenomenon in which a small percentage of people contributes the majority of information to the total outcome
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Racial inequality, hierarchical social distinctions between racial and ethnic categories within a society
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Social inequality
Social inequality occurs when resources in a given society are distributed unevenly, typically through norms of allocation, that engender specific patterns along lines of socially defined categories of persons. It posses and creates gender c ...
, unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group
See also
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Equality (disambiguation)
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Equal (disambiguation)
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Inequation
In mathematics, an inequation is a statement that an inequality holds between two values. It is usually written in the form of a pair of expressions denoting the values in question, with a relational sign between them indicating the specific ine ...
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List of countries by wealth inequality
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List of countries by income inequality
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List of inequalities
This article lists Wikipedia articles about named mathematical inequalities.
Inequalities in pure mathematics
Analysis
* Agmon's inequality
* Askey–Gasper inequality
* Babenko–Beckner inequality
* Bernoulli's inequality
* Bernstein's ine ...
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