Article 3CC3B Inequality is under attack - but what should equality really look like?

Inequality is under attack - but what should equality really look like?

by
Jo Littler
from Economics | The Guardian on (#3CC3B)

In 2017 inequality was highlighted like never before. Now we need to open our political imaginations to determine what a more equal world really is

Highlighting inequalities was something 2017 was very good at: from #MeToo's exposure of systematic sexism stretching way beyond Hollywood, to the president of the IMF warning against rising levels of economic inequality, to the incendiary visuals of Black Lives Matter.

But this year, how should such outrage be extended into imagining, and creating, true equality? It's often harder to answer this question than to point out specific examples of inequality.

Related: The Inequality Project: the Guardian's in-depth look at our unequal world

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