Equal opportunities means ensuring that all people receive fair treatment and access to opportunities regardless of their race, gender, disability status, religion, or other personal characteristics. Specifically, equal opportunities aims to provide fair access to housing, education, healthcare, and employment. Ensuring equal opportunities is important because denying opportunities to some groups is a violation of basic rights and discourages diversity. However, some groups still face barriers when it comes to receiving truly equal access and treatment, such as women facing discrimination related to pregnancy and childcare, and disabled individuals confronting physical and social barriers.

1. What does equal opportunities mean?
Equal opportunities is
Research on the internet and find out how equal opportunities applies to:
Equal opportunities applies to The first example has been
housing by completed for you:
Public housing – Greenwich Housing
Association
It is important to have equal
opportunities in housing because
Private housing – Berkeley Homes in
Sometime people don’t get equal
Woolwich Arsenal
opportunities to housing because
Equal opportunities applies to
education by allowing every child to
get an education no matter what
race they are, gender, disability
religion.
It is important to have equal
opportunities in education because
its everybodys right to have
education
Sometime people don’t get equal
opportunities to education because
the country they might live in might
have different rights for each
people.

2. Equal opportunities applies to
healthcare by NHS national health
service meaning you are entitled to
free health care
It is important to have equal
opportunities in healthcare because
some people don’t have a lot of
money to pay off bills hospital etc.
Sometime people don’t get equal
opportunities to healthcare because
sometimes people are asked to pay
a big amount of money when they
don’t have enough money to pay it
off.
Equal opportunities applies to
employment by giving everybody
the right to work no matter what.

3. It is important to have equal
employment because its fair and it’s
the right thing to do, and also
encourages diversity.
Sometime people don’t get equal
opportunities to employment
because people might employ people
they know , some companies don’t
have the equal opportunity form
and therefor might have an unfair
ratio of different diverse groups
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
gender by men and women
getting the same jobs and
having the same opportunities
It is important to have equal
opportunities for this group

4. because if they’re not being
treated equally that means its
being sexist.
The problems happen when
women protest, discrimination
against having children.
Equal opportunities applies to
disabled by allowing physical
access, support eg walking stick,
lsa, money.
It is important to have equal
opportunities for this group
because they vulnerable, and
need support but also they are
members of society and have
the right to help.
The problems happen when they
are not included eg no lifts or
access