The Human Condition : #Embracing Equity & International Women's Day, 2023
Yesterday 8th March, 2023 was International Women's Day with the campaign theme of #EmbraceEquity. I did have this post written yesterday morning but didn't get around to posting it as my day was three quarters taken up with doing IWD type things - well sort of, as you will see if you read to the end. The word 'equity' is the quality of being fair and reasonable in a way that gives equal treatment to everyone. It's commonly used in legal and financial terms such as in the sum of a person's assets, once debts have been taken from it. If someone who has borrowed money to buy a house and has 'negative equity', the amount of money they owe is greater than the present value of their home. I have to say that I have checked my understanding of 'equity' and 'equality' and the differences between them, with a dictionary and can confirm that " Equality is providing the same level of opportunity to all segments of society such as races