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Our current society is not just

Our current society is not just. There are too many inequalities between men and women in numerous situations for our society to be considered evenly balanced. Aristotle is one of the many philosophers who defined what a ‘just’ society would be. According to Aristotle, justice requires treating like cases alike and different cases differently. Presently, men and women are far from being treated alike. Susan Okin and Claudia Card in their respective book and article, Justice Gender and the Family and Against Marriage and Motherhood, argue that changes should be made in our society to create equality.
Susan Okin presents a strong argument against the way women are treated presently. She claims that ‘our current gender structure is incompatible with the attainment of social justice, but also that the disappearance of gender is a prerequisite for the complete development of a nonsexist, fully human theory of justice’ (Okin, 105). Okin provides a great deal of evidence ...

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