From the start, Zapatero identified equality as a defining characteristic of a modern democracy, and it's only partly because he plainly enjoys challenging the macho conservativism that has dominated his country since the days of Ferdinand and Isabella.
Frequently, this task is facilitated by identifying linear equality constraints that all integer solutions must satisfy.
It has identified gender equality as a priority.
Nussbaum, in a careful, nuanced, and compelling analysis, identifies religious equality as the crucial American tradition.
De Búrca (2008, 129 36) identifies political equality, participation, and representation as key values.
It's vital – of course – that women and girls themselves are at the forefront of the fight for equality, identifying the problems they face and the solutions needed.
But the new deal does not offer anything concrete to help junior doctors overcome the difficulty of arranging childcare for the extra weekend shifts many will be working – another problem identified by the equality assessment back in March.
Ideally society should equalize outcomes for each centile of every type, but in general this will not be possible, so one seeks a logically possible approximation to this ideal and identifies this as equality of opportunity.
Or should we be finding new ways to encourage people to identify with gender equality and women's rights?
When Americans, more than half of whom support marriage equality, identify someone who funds such causes, what tends to happen is that they do things like protest their organizations and boycott their businesses, as if they were allowed to express their rational self-interest in a free market, or something.
