But in this specific situation, where I see a guy I want but not for anything other than sex, I miss the relative equality of our gender positions.
While this can be portrayed as a victory for equality, the position of traditionalists is simply that the draft measure (pdf) as it stands doesn't provide for a secure future for us in the Church of England, a future that was promised in 1993 but now appears to have been rescinded.
In a society with broad equality of opportunity, the parents' position on the income ladder should have little impact on that of their children.
An unequal outcome has to result from equality of chances at a position, i.e., qualifications alone counting, not social background or influences of milieu.
Formal equality of opportunity requires that positions and posts that confer superior advantages should be open to all applicants.
Rawls argued that the most rational principles of justice are those we would accept in an ideal state of equality — the "original position".
Two male cabinet members, Knut Storberget, the justice minister, and Audun Lysbakken, the minister of equality (yes, this position exists), recently took three and four months off, respectively, to look after their latest offspring.
Until we have equality in positions of power across society more generally, achieving equality on culture boards will inevitably require a degree of affirmative action on the part of those appointing people to boards.
A third possible intermediate position combines formal equality of opportunity with the requirement that state action should treat all citizens equally and not confer arbitrary advantages on some along with arbitrary disadvantages on others.
Another possible intermediate position combines formal equality of opportunity with the requirement that present effects of past wrongful violations of formal equality of opportunity should be fully offset.
