Equity

Equity may refer to:

Finance, accounting and ownership

 * Equity (finance), ownership of assets that have liabilities attached to them
 * Stock, equity based on original contributions of cash or other value to a business
 * Home equity, the difference between the market value and unpaid mortgage balance on a home
 * Private equity, stock in a privately held company
 * The equity method of accounting for large investment interests

Business, justice and law

 * Equity (law), in common law jurisdictions
 * Equity (economics), the study of fairness in economics
 * Educational equity, the study and achievement of population-proportionate group inclusion and credentialing in education
 * Intergenerational equity, equality and fairness in relationships between people in different generations (including those yet to be born)
 * Equity theory, on the relations and perceptions of fairness in distributions of resources within social and professional situations.
 * Employment equity (Canada), policy requiring or encouraging the hiring of disenfranchised minorities
 * Health equity, fairness and justice in health and healthcare

Education and social sciences

 * Social equity

Companies and organizations
The word equity is also used in the names of the following companies and organizations:

Companies

 * Equity Industries, an electronics subsidiary of Chiaphua Components Group
 * Equity Music Group, a defunct American country music record label, founded by Clint Black
 * EQ Office, one of the largest owners and managers of office buildings in the United States

Organizations

 * Actors' Equity Association, United States labor union of actors and stage managers
 * American Society of Equity, United States agrarian reform organization
 * Canadian Actors' Equity Association, an association in Canada
 * Equity (British trade union) (formerly British Actors' Equity Association), an association in the United Kingdom
 * Forum Party of Alberta, a defunct political party from Alberta, Canada also known as the Equity Party
 * Transportation Equity Network, American organization advocating equity-based transportation policies

Other

 * Equity, Ohio, a community in the United States
 * In poker strategy, a player's expected share of the pot
 * Brand equity, in marketing, the value built up in a brand
 * Equity (film), a 2016 American film directed by Meera Menon
 * Equity (typeface), also known as Ehrhardt, a font designed by Matthew Butterick