Feminism and the Legal Equality and Fairness Doctrines

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some differences in how the same objective is achieved.

Through the legal equality doctrine, the feminists assert that path to equality is based on changing the paradigm of natural difference and its political consequences. They aimed to assert the rational thought, denying any fundamental difference in character or nature between sexes, and instead asserting that differences were societal and legal. For instance in the legal institution of marriage, feminists argued that there was legal subjugation of one sex to the other and not biological. Furthermore, the laws around pregnancy and workplace assumed that women were unequal and inferior to men because of their physical structure. On the other hand, the legal equality doctrine asserted that any laws surrounding pregnancy and workplace should not take gender as basis and that pregnancy be deemed a temporary disability since the concept of separate legislations for working men and women in event of pregnancy was incompatible with ...

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