Inequality

Inequality may refer to:

Economics

• Economic inequality, difference in economic well-being between population groups
• Income inequality metrics, used to measure income and economic inequality among participants in a particular economy
• International inequality, economic differences between countries

Healthcare

• Health equity, the study of differences in the quality of health and healthcare across different populations

Mathematics

• Inequality (mathematics), a relation between two values when they are different
• Inequalities (book), 1934 mathematics book by G. H. Hardy, J. E. Littlewood, and G. Pólya

Social sciences

• Educational inequality, the unequal distribution of academic resources to socially excluded communities
• Gender inequality, unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals due to their gender
• Participation inequality, the phenomenon in which a small percentage of people contributes the majority of information to the total outcome
• Racial inequality, hierarchical social distinctions between racial and ethnic categories within a society
• Social inequality, unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group

See also

• Equality (disambiguation)
• Equal (disambiguation)
• Inequation (≠)
• List of countries by wealth inequality
• List of countries by income inequality
• List of inequalities
• Social stratification, grouping of people into socioeconomic strata based upon their occupation, income, wealth and social status