1800s: Martineau · Tocqueville · Marx · Spencer · Le Bon · Ward · Pareto · Tönnies · Veblen · Simmel · Durkheim · Addams · Mead · Weber · Du Bois · Mannheim · Elias Social equity is concerned with justice and fairness of social policy based on the principle of substantive equality.
Equity includes the role of public administrators, who are tasked with ensuring that social services are distributed fairly.
[3] Attention to social equity in the field of public administration in the United States arose during the 1960s, amid growing national awareness of civil rights and racial inequality.
[7] Recent administration from former U.S. President Barack Obama has shed light on the subject of social equity for members of the LGBTQ community.
The Obama administration appointed more than 170 openly LGBTQ professionals to work full-time within the executive branch and directed the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to conduct “the first ever national study to determine the level of discrimination experienced by LGBTQ community in housing.”[8] Within the realm of public administration, racial equality is an important factor.