Equal opportunities means that everyone receives fair and equal treatment regardless of individual differences. The document discusses how equal opportunities applies to housing, education, healthcare, employment, gender, and age. Specifically, it states that equal opportunities in housing means both public and private housing options are available to all. In education, it means all students can learn regardless of disabilities. For healthcare, equal opportunities implies universal access to treatment. In employment, it signifies everyone having an equal chance to get a job. The document then examines issues with equal opportunities for gender and age, noting challenges around pregnancy discrimination and age-related assumptions.

1. 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 The first example has been
housing by people can either have completed for you:
public housing or private housing.
Public is when the poor get housing Public housing – Greenwich Housing
from the council. Private is when Association
people buy or rent from the council
or private companies.
It is important to have equal
opportunities in housing because of
Private housing – Berkeley Homes in
other people earn different
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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.
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
becauseevery has the right to an
education.

2. 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.

3. 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 evidence
Gender, in theory women can get - newspaper or website
any job that a man can get. address
- a quote to support your point
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.
Equal opportunities applies to age News article or supporting evidence
because young people have fewer - newspaper or website
qualification and experience and address
older people are more experienced - a quote to support your point
but they face discrimination
because the might be seen to be
too old.
It is important to have equal
opportunities for this group
becausethese 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

4. dates on your CV, which determine
if you are experienced enough and
roughly how old you may be.