Equal opportunity
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Equal opportunity is a stipulation that all people should be treated similarly, unhampered by artificial barriers or prejudices or preferences, except when particular “distinctions can be explicitly justified.” The aim according to this often "complex and contested concept" is that important jobs should go to those “most qualified” – persons most likely to perform ably in a given task – and not go to persons for arbitrary or irrelevant reasons, such as circumstances of birth, upbringing, friendship ties to whoever is in power, religion, sex, ethnicity, race, caste, or “involuntary personal attributes” such as disability, age, or sexual preferences. Chances for advancement should be open to everybody interested such that they have “an equal chance to compete within the framework of goals and the structure of rules established.”
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- Related: Universal access, Meritocracy, Egalitarianism, Equality of outcome, Asset-based egalitarianism, Affirmative action, Equality of autonomy
| UK Government Women & Equality Unit UK Government Women & Equality Unit www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk - Web |
| U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC... U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) (US) www.eeoc.gov - Web |
| Department of the Interior Office for Equal Opport... Department of the Interior Office for Equal Opportunity (US) www.doi.gov/diversity/ - Web |
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| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Equal... Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Equality of Opportunity plato.stanford.edu/entries/equal-opportunity/ - Web |
