She has been pivotal in the passage of key legislation for women's equality, has pushed to make Social Security pensions more equitable, and has worked to close the wage gap.
There are, surely, more creative and equitable ways of managing state pension costs for an increasingly ageing population, using parameters other than just the starting age.
In particular, there is the puzzle about why the government did nothing when the potential cost of the guarantees started to emerge in the 1990s.Even before Equitable's crisis, the private-pension business was having problems.
Some bankruptcy experts questioned whether it was equitable for a city to pay pension costs in full while paying only 1% to other creditors.
Axa Sun Life, Clerical Medical, NPI Globalcare, Scottish Equitable and Standard Life all offer ethical pensions.
Its method of mutual support is more efficient and equitable than private healthcare, education, and pensions.
At the meeting, individual shareholders, advocates for more equitable executive compensation and representatives of labor union pension funds battered Mr. Parsons with criticisms about the company's ethics and performance.
This expanded care system should be funded through a more equitable distribution of the generational burden: for example, ending higher-rate pension tax relief in the UK would raise over £7bn a year, augmented by a progressive system of wealth and property taxation.
"A more equitable move would be for the government to tighten superannuation [private pension] tax concessions, which overwhelmingly benefit high-income people.
And we will continue to do so until we demand that our government insist on more equitable treatment from the corporations that have stripped our wages, pensions and benefits, and from the banks with their corrupt interest-rate schemes.
