What does equal opportunities mean?

Equal opportunities is every individual gets the same judgment and no-one is treated different, they are treated the same.

Research on the internet and find out how equal opportunities applies to:

Equal opportunities applies to housing by people can either have public housing or private housing. Public is when the poor get housing from the council. Private is when people buy or rent from the council or private companies.

It is important to have equal opportunities in housing because of other people earn different amounts of money so it gives the less fortunate a place to live.

Sometime people don’t get equal opportunities to housing because if they are homeless they have no address or bank account and this is essential to rent or purchase a house from the council or from a private company.

The first example has been completed for you:

Public housing – Greenwich Housing Association

Private housing – Berkeley Homes in Woolwich Arsenal

Equal opportunities applies to education by people with disabilities get to learn. The types of education you have are: public, grammar, private, independent, home school.

It is important to have equal opportunities in education because every has the right to an education.

Sometime people don’t get equal opportunities to education because they are in and out of different school, and it disrupts their learning because they are

not in a stable environment.

Equal opportunities applies to healthcare with the NHS and private.

It is important to have equal opportunities in healthcare because so everyone can be treated for illnesses that they have.

Sometime people don’t get equal opportunities to healthcare because there are cuts in funding so this means that there will be longer waiting times and you might have to go private, and that is expensive.

Equal opportunities applies to employment by so everyone is able to get a job.

It is important to have equal employment in healthcare because everyone can work and have a chance to be stable in life.

Sometime people don’t get equal opportunities to employment because of lack of experience and no training available.

Pick two groups from the list below. Explain the problems that people have giving equal opportunities to people in these groups:

Disabled Gender LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Ethnic groups Age

Equal opportunities applies to News article or supporting

Gender, in theory women can get any job that a man can get.

It is important to have equal opportunities for this group because men and women are equal and it is not fair to say one gender is more superior than another.

The problems happen when women get pregnant because they are unable to work and it stops them taking the top jobs, working long hours and causes stress.

evidence- newspaper or website

address- a quote to support your

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Equal opportunities applies to age because young people have fewer qualification and experience and older people are more experienced but they face discrimination because the might be seen to be too old.

It is important to have equal opportunities for this group because these group, such as young people can handle more stress and elderly people get more tired and problems with their bodies.

The problems happen when you have dates on your CV, which determine if you are experienced enough and roughly how old you may be.

News article or supporting evidence

- newspaper or website address

- a quote to support your point