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It's a bit problematic.
The less tricky way out would be to explain using examples of how you may have encountered positive and negative facets of equal opportunities in any workplace you've previously been in - but without specific detail, which makes it more difficult.
Obviously, there's also any courses or diversity training that may have been undertaken into the past - these are worth their weight in gold if available, but they're not necessary, as 'Diversity' in it's current form in the workplace (or at least in my workplace) is still evolving and emergent and there's constant training and retraining in Diversity (which I'm taking to mean roughtly the same thing as Equal Opportunities, plus or minus a few rough edges) in the workplace, so it would appear to be a hot topic right now.
Failing all this, there's the simple 'I am committed to my belief in equal opportunities in the workplace because(...)', and a miniature essay, but it can't be too stream-of-consciousness, or it comes out as... Searching for the word here... Well, a stock answer, anyway.
In short, hopefully;
I) Any previous experience - positive for preference or, equally, how you've managed with negative situations pertaining to Equal opportunities in the past
II) Any training or specific courses covering this in the past that you may have undertaken
III) A short essay on a passionately-held belief that equal opportunities is one of the most important things to apply in the workplace, and why it should be unfailingly applied.
(I have a fervent belief in number 3, but I'd end up writing something like 5,000 words on the subject, which might take up too much space.)
I hope this is, in some way, helpful - I have to deal with this a lot where I'm working, and it deeply frustrates me when I hear workmates talking about it as if it was a bad thing.
It also looks like they may be looking for job-specific application of E/O requirements, so research and specific application of the principles to (III) may be your friend.
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