“Parites.” This is the Latin term from which the word parity that concerns us now is derived. Specifically, it is a word that is the result of the sum of two clearly differentiated parts: “par”, which can be translated as “equal”, and the suffix “-dad”, which is equivalent to “quality”.
Parity refers to the similarity , similarity or equivalence between two or more things. For example: “The Argentine championship is a tournament with a lot of parity between the participating teams” , “They were countries of similar development, until the discovery of oil in the southern nation ended the parity” , “The Spanish tennis player broke the parity when “He managed to break the Swiss serve.”
If a sports journalist mentions the parity that was seen in a soccer match, he will be referring to the fact that none of the teams managed to establish superiority. The level of both teams, therefore, was even , with no differences on the scoreboard. The logical thing, faced with a parity of this type, is that the match ends tied.
In the field of mathematics , the parity of a number is established when it is a multiple of 2 . This means that 2, 4, 6, 14, 36, 588 and 1040, to name just a few, are even numbers. The notion of parity also appears in certain functions.
In the same way, we find ourselves within the mathematical field with the so-called “parity function”. This is widely used in circuit complexity research and is identified by being of Boolean type.
In telecommunications , parity refers to the process of introducing an additional bit (known as a parity bit ) at the beginning of a data transmission, something that helps discover and solve possible errors.
Likewise, we must not overlook that parity is also a very important term within the rights of citizens. In this case it is used to refer to the fact that women also have the right to be voted in elections, with the clear objective of being able to represent the rest of their neighbors.
Hence, more and more efforts are made to encourage this parity. That is, because in the lists of political parties for elections, women can have the same presence as men.
For this reason, many agree in emphasizing that parity has become a tool to normalize the civil life of women, to achieve gender equality and, above all, to ensure that they have the same rights as men.
For economics , parity is usually a value that allows one currency to be compared with another. We speak of purchasing power parity , on the other hand, to refer to the total of products and services generated in a region according to the value of a nation's currency taken as a reference.