Social equality

de:Gleichberechtigung es:Igualdad social he:שיוויון pl:Równość (polityka i socjologia) fr:egalite sv:jämställdhet fi:tasa-arvo

See also the disambiguation page titled equality for the mathematical and geographical topics.

Equality is a social state of affairs in which certain different people have the same social status in a certain respect. There are different forms of equality, depending on the persons and social situations in question. For example, one may consider equality of the sexes in opportunities for employment; the people in question are men and women (contrasted) and the social situation is the search for a job.

The fight for social and legal equality was seen during the sixties in the United States in the Civil Rights movement. Though, ultimately defeated by subversion by those in power then as now, the civil rights movement made great progress, the ideals professed by the movement put some hope into the oppressed masses of the illiterate and impoverished peoples.

See also:

• Discrimination
• Egalitarianism
• Gender role
• Topfree equality

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia article. Browse Wikipedia for more information.