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equalities

  • plural
    of equality.
    equality
    noun
    the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability.

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Following that ruling, Labour cancelled last year's women's conference outright, awaiting full guidance from the equalities watchdog around the definition of a woman.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Marie Goldman, Lib Dem MP for Chelmsford and spokesperson for women and equalities, said that growing up in Devon, teachers told her to tone down her West Country accent for Bible readings.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Labour MP and women and equalities committee chair Sarah Owens said Mountbatten-Windsor must face questions from police and Parliament, while her colleague Rachael Maskell told the BBC Mountbatten-Windsor had been "conservative with the truth".

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

Perhaps the key finding in the 134 pages of legal argument in the Darlington case is that the County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust misunderstood equalities law.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

Unfortunately perhaps, people are more sensitive to absolute differences between people than they are to rough equalities between them.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos