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noun, plural -ties for 2.

lack of equity; unfairness; favoritism or bias.

an unfair circumstance or proceeding.

Origin:
1550–60; in-³ + equity

Can be confused: inequity, iniquity.

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Pay inequity was tackled head-on for the first time nearly a quarter century ago.

Good point, sicetnon but the matter of inequity still exists.

The inequity isn't programs that transfer from the young to the old.

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Pay inequity was tackled head-on for the first time nearly a quarter century ago.

Good point, sicetnon but the matter of inequity still exists.

The inequity isn't programs that transfer from the young to the old.

Your statement itself speaks of inequity being the source of violent action and armed conflict.

Chief among those was the coastline's inequity of access.

The reasons for this persistent inequity are complex, and they vary with geography.

Obviously, it's no wonder that the people who occupy the top of the heap can't see this inequity.

Looking at a differential in pay for men and women in the aggregate tells us little about pay inequity.

Moreover, social context is known to strongly affect the frequency of negative responses to inequity in chimpanzees.

For example, older women may have entered the work force at a time when inequity in pay between the genders was more acceptable.

It seems to me that this is more than a matter of educational inequity.

Politicians should speak more about generational inequity.

We called it inequity aversion, a topic since investigated in other animals, including dogs.

Industrial and environmental inefficiency is thus combined with inequity.

Lowering doctors' salaries doesn't correct this inequity.

Governments have responded to this inequity by creating non-contributory pensions and other social programmes.

Much of the recent discussion about backdating has centered on its inequity and its basic cheesiness.

Capitalism has created a gargantuan inequity in wealth distribution and has never been known to create equity.

The student quoted actually seemed to get the basic inequity of it more than the principals.

The manager told me there are no rules and that the board of directors are well aware of this inequity but do nothing about it.

These reactions support an early evolutionary origin of inequity aversion.

In short, the ethanol boom is accelerating the inequity in the rural landscape.

The inequity is not your fault, nor is it your responsibility to fix.

The remedy for this inequity will not be found at the department.

But as with so many of the symptoms of inequity between academe's two faculty tiers, fairness is only part of the problem.

Supporters of a new school say there is geographic inequity.

Inequity alone apparently isn't enough to shame the parties into reforming the system.

They automatically creates inequity because of the varying degrees of parental involvement.

In this den of social inequity live a gentle barber, his wife and their baby daughter.

However, new research suggests that many people are discouraged by the inequity and give up and productivity falls.

The fundamental issues are inequity and discrimination.

Ledbetter had testified during court proceedings that she was aware of some inequity in salary relative to male co-workers.

Soccer is a national treasure in a land of social and financial inequity.

Her logic was that secrecy about salaries masks inequity.

The report highlighted several areas of difference between boys and girls, but the inequity did not exist across the board.

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inequity (ɪnˈɛkwɪtɪ)

—n , pl -ties
1.	lack of equity; injustice; unfairness
2.	an unjust or unfair act, sentence, etc

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"The judges and lawyers ... consider, not whether the Fugitive Slave Law is right, but whether it is what they call constitutional. Is virtue constitutional, or vice? Is equity constitutional, or inequity? In important moral and vital questions, like this, it is just as impertinent to ask whether a law is constitutional or not, as to ask whether it is profitable or not.... The question is, not whether you or your grandfather, seventy years ago, did not enter into an agreement to serve the devil, and that service is not accordingly now due; but whether you will not now, for once and at last, serve God,—in spite of your own past recreancy, or that of your ancestor,—by obeying that eternal and only just CONSTITUTION, which He, and not any Jefferson or Adams, has written in your being."

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