I’ve seen on reddit people say that the concept of “equity” is all about fairness and giving people what they need to succeed and that has nothing to do with equality of outcome. However I am a woman in tech and I’m constantly hearing advocates of equity talk about how we need to get 50% of industry to be female (same with corporate boards, politics, other fields etc). Despite saying it has noting to do with equality of outcome, they do seem to focus a lot on equality of outcome as their goal.
I guess I am wondering whether equity is truely about justice and not about achieving equality of outcomes? And if equality of outcome is not the goal, then what is? How can we know whether equity has been achieved if we are not using equality of outcome as a metric?
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Wouldn’t equality of input be a factor in equality of outcome? For example. If you have 1000 potential employees in a particular city who want to be in tech who are male, and only 150 who are female, you are going to have one heck of a time achieving equality of outcome.
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