Social equality

Equality is a social state of affairs in which certain different people have the same status in a certain respect. There are different forms of equality, depending on the persons and social situations in question. For example, one may consider equality of the sexes in opportunities for employment; the people in question are men and women (contrasted) and the social situation is the search for a job. As another example, equal opportunity refers to the idea that all people should start out in life from the same platform (i.e. all should have equal opportunities in life, regardless of where they were born or who their parents were). A fight for social and legal equality was seen during the sixties in the United States in the Civil Rights movement.

Quotes

• "And it is not equality for everyone to have the same rewards, the same rights, and the same status; indeed, this often results in extreme inequality." Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince (1516).
• "Equal rights does not mean equal property." Michael Badnarik, Good to be King: The Foundations of Our Constitutional Freedom (2004)

See also

• Desegregation
• Discrimination
• Egalitarianism
• Equality of outcome
• Gender role
• Racial integration
• Gay rights

External links

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry
• American coalition for fathers and Children - Equality in Family Law
• Fathersfor Virginia - Equality in Family Law

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