GENDER EQUITY & EQUALITY

GENDER EQUITY & EQUALITY 

Gender Equity is the process of being fair to men and women.
 To ensure fairness, measures must often be put in place to compensate for the historical and social disadvantages that prevent women and men from operating on a level playing field. 

Equity is a means. Equality is the result. 

Equity: 
The distribution of rewards in society according to some criterion of merit, i.e., procedural justice and fairness. Outcomes reflect individual contributions. 

Equality:
 Giving the same reward to all, regardless of their contributions. 
Gender inequality is still very evident in this respect, as indicated by the following United Nations statistics: 
Women perform 2/3 of the world's work 
Women earn 1/10 of the world's income 
Women are 2/3 of the world's illiterates 
Women own less than 1/100 of the world's property