Equality for whom?

Equality is invariably presented as an inclusive principle. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights speaks of ‘the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family’. The European Union, mindful that its diversity agenda now extended beyond race and gender to other categories of difference, designated 2007 the ‘Year of Equal Opportunities for All’; and the British Conservative party raised no eyebrows in 2010 with a pre-election commitment to equality of opportunity for ‘every single individual in this country’.1