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Equity may refer to:

Finance, accounting and ownership

  • Equity (finance), ownership of assets that have liabilities attached to them
    • Stock, equity based on original contributions of cash or other value to a business
    • Home equity, the difference between the market value and unpaid mortgage balance on a home
    • Private equity, stock in a privately held company
    • Equity in income of affiliates, an accounting term referring to the consolidated or unconsolidated ownership in affiliate companies

Business, justice and law

  • Equity (law), a branch of jurisprudence in common law jurisdictions
  • Equity (economics), the study of fairness in economics
  • Educational equity, the study and achievement of fairness in education
  • Intergenerational equity, equality and fairness in relationships between people in different generations (including those yet to be born)
  • Equity theory, on the relations and perceptions of fairness in distributions of resources within social and professional situations.
  • Employment equity (Canada), policy requiring or encouraging the hiring of disenfranchised minorities
  • Health equity, fairness and justice in health and healthcare

Education and social sciences

Companies and organizations

The word equity is also used in the names of the following companies and organizations:

Companies

Organizations

Other

See also