Social equity and the public interest

Abstract

In “Social Equity: Its Legacy, Its Promise,” Mary E. Guy and Sean A. McCandless carefully reconstruct the history of advances in social equity and develop convincing arguments for why it is, or at least should be, a “pillar of the field.” This commentary builds on the logic of Guy and McCandless but reframes the discussion to treat social equity less as a dimension of performance and more as a component of the public interest.