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Inequality in the UK The Oxford English Dictionary defines inequality as "the quality of being unequal or uneven". The instance of being unequal may arise from the disparity of distribution or opportunity and spans all social dogmas including: gender, race, political or religious persuasion. There are many forms of measuring inequality wealth, consumption and opportunity but there are problems inherent in each. Perhaps the most effective way of measuring inequality is comparing income earned, as there is sufficient raw data, it is easily conceptualised and it does not entail normative statements or value judgements. The most widely used measure of income inequality in society is the Gini co-efficient. It is a precise way of measuring the position of the Lorenz curve (see diagram below), a graph that shows, for the bottom x% of households, the percentage y% of the total income which they have. To compute the Gini Coefficient, the area between...

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