“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.” -Honoré de Balzac. This quote caught me when I was searching some facts about equal rights and equal opportunity.
Equal-Opportunity Policy, plan of action that spells out what constitutes unfair discrimination in order to guide employment practices. Such a policy ensures that the organization is working within the legislation on equal pay and sex and race discrimination.- these facts are some, but what really is the meaning of the word equal in our real world?
In 1916 Alice Paul, a leader in the suffragist movement (see Woman Suffrage), founded the National Woman's Party (NWP), a political party dedicated to establishing equal rights for women. Paul viewed equality under the law as the foundation essential to full equality for women. Along with her colleagues, Paul began to work on constitutional amendments recognizing equal rights for women at both state and federal levels. In 1921 various groups, which two years before had been close allies of the NWP, fiercely opposed the NWP's proposed language banning “political, civil or legal disabilities or inequalities on account of sex, or on account of marriage unless applying alike to both sexes.” Labor organizers and others fighting for women's economic welfare believed this push for legal equality threatened legislation that had been passed to protect exploited women working in factories. While Paul was not opposed to improving oppressive conditions in industry, she and other like-minded women argued that the laws designed to protect women could be used to restrict their employment opportunities.
Equal rights for me are supposed to be a NO DISCRIMINATION policy. A real one. No injustice acts. No unsolved crime because of the social standing of the suspects. You know a real one.
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