GENDER JUSTICE

 

GENDER JUSTICE

Gender justice is a human right. Every woman and girl has the right to live with dignity and freedom without any fear. Understanding it involves the sharing of power and responsibility between men and women at home, in the workplace, and in wider national and international communities. This article first discuss briefly about the questions of gender justice. What determines whether a society is gender just? How should we conceive of gender justice? When will we reach a society that is gender just, or is perhaps our current society already gender just? [1] The next section is based on a theoretical and empirical understanding of political philosophy, social and cognitive psychology, sociology and economics. The following section presents the feasibility approach as the standard basis for interpersonal comparisons that help assess gender equality. The next section proposes three principles of gender justice that society can use to determine whether gender is fair.

THE QUESTION OF GENDER JUSTICE

Inequality in gender is not only a topic but also a matter of controversy. Deborah Rhode argues that unfair inequalities between women and men no longer exist. But others deny this. They say that women are the victims of social injustice and inequality.

What determines whether a society is gender just? For its specifics on issues of gender, it requires a conceptualization of gender and a few minimal principles of justice.

 

CONCEPTUALIZING GENDER

Gender is the recognition of the characteristics and differences between femininity and masculinity. Depending on the context, these traits may include biological sexuality, gender-based social structures, or gender identity.3

 

 

GENDER JUSTICE AND CAPABILITIES

Gender justice compares the inequality between men and women on the dimension of a person’s abilities, the real freedom she has to choose a life that has reason to appreciate it. These organisms and activities are called individual activities, and include more complex and specific activities, such as being healthy, being cared for, not being mentally ill, maintaining valuable social relationships, and integrating a job with family life. These activities and effective opportunities for a person to understand these situations.

 

 

THREE PRINCIPLES OF GENDER JUSTICE

There are three principles of Gender justice. They are, 

1. The capability sets for men and women should be the same. The only inequalities between men and women that are justified are those (a) that are (directly or indirectly) due to sex differences that are not gender differences, and (b) which cannot be rectified by human intervention. [1]
2. The constraints on choice from the capability set should not be structured according to morally        irrelevant characteristics, such as gender. [1]
3. The ‘pay-offs’ of the different options in the capability set need to be justified and should not be gender biased [1] 

REFERENCES

 

1.  [1] Robeyns, I.A.M., 2007. When will society be gender just?. Browne, J.(ed.), The Future of Gender, pp.54-74. 
2. [2] Sibley, C.G., 2015. Julia C. Becker. Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination, p.315. 
3. Gender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender