Some to do with "Equality". Here i mean "Equality" to mean "Gender Equality"
A point that is part of the discussion is: "Does equality mean equality of opportunity or does it mean equality of outcome"?
Equality means (to me) no social structures that favour one gender over the other.
Equality of opportunity means that people are free to choose without social structures biasing that choice. I guess one would measure that by asking people whether they felt free to choose and whether past choices were ones they'd made v where they'd kind of been forced or corralled into a certain life path.
Equality of Outcome being more like do we have equal numbers of women and men in each profession and do men and women in the same job get equal pay and do men and women spend equal time at home, cooking, cleaning, child rearing and at work. Do we have have equal numbers of women CEO's, engineers, nurses, soldiers etc.
Interestingly, the more free a society is in terms of providing equality of opportunity, the less equal it is in terms of outcome.
The reason being is that in a society where one is really free to make choices, one is likely to choose based on underlying desires and personality traits and so on. So if you are really driven, you might choose a path that has some uncomfortable challenges and competition for positions and some conflict along the way. If you are more relaxed and value and enjoy socialisation, you might choose a path of relaxation.
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