When asked what does equal opportunities means in a job interview what should one give?

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When presented with the question of equal opportunities I've always taken that to mean that a woman and man get paid the same amout of money for doing the same job and in my particular case I did see such a case. I was a Union Shop Steward and there was this one lady working on a machine operated by both men and women. She wanted a raise based upon the fact that her output was greater than the men in her department doing the same job. Before taking her request to management I had to investigate her claims.

Turned out that indeed her output was greater than the men around her, but she wasn't doing the job as it was described in her agenda. She wasn't carrying 20ft long rods from a bar rack to her machine, she wasn't strong enough so the same men she complained about as not doing their fair share of the work load were actually carrying her rods to the machine and each hour to an hour and a half 5 gallons of oil had to poured into her machine as she was cutting metal so the metal can't get hot or it burrs. At any rate, her request for a raise had to be turned down until she could do all of what her job description called for. As far as I know she never did get the raise, but anyone who can do the same job as the man next to her can do on her own deserves to be paid the same amout of money and have the same benifits.