Social equality
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Social equality is a social state of affairs in which certain different people have the same status in a certain respect, at the very least in voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, and the extent of property rights.
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.
See also
External links
- [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry]
- [American Coalition for Fathers and Children - Equality in Family Law]
- [Fathers for Virginia - Equality in Family Law]
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