Social equity

Social equity holds that social policy should be based on the principle of substantive equality. Since the 1960s, the political principle of social equity has been used in a variety of institutional contexts, including education and public administration.

Social equity is different from the social equality principle based on formal equality of opportunity. For example, providing hearing aids for the deaf would be considered social equity as it furthers the ability of people to equally partake in society, whereas if they received no aid, they would be treated completely equally to others, but they would not have these opportunities.