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GENDER JUSTICE

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   INTRODUCTION Robeyns has argued that gender is a social category, with two modes, man and woman. Observations or imaginations pf sexual characteristics serve as markers to classify individuals in different social positions. the social category ‘gender’ becomes protected on the biological category ‘sex’. The point about the concept of gender is that women and men are treated according to their social positions (gender) for reasons that have nothing, or only tangentially, to do with their biological position(sex). According to that, gender refers to the characteristics of men, women, boys, and girls that are the socially constructed aspects. This also consist of norms, behaviors and roles associated with being a man, women, man, girl, or boy and also the relationship among each other. As socially construct, gender can be differing from society to society and could be changed time to time. A ‘gender-equal society’ is a society in which both men and women, as equal members, hav...

RACISM AND ITS HARMFUL EFFECTS AND WHAT WE MEAN ABOUT THAT

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Races are large groupings of persons, distinguished by physical features such as skin color, hair texture, and facial features. Some people have dark skin and woolly hair, others light skin and straight hair. These so-called racial differences are captured in what adherents of the popular account might regard as more scientifically precise form, in a UNESCO statement from 1953 describing the three "major racial groups" and attempting to summarize what was known about race at the "Race": What We Mean and What We Think We Mean 99 time: " 'Asians' tend to have a fold of skin (the ' epicanthic' fold) overhanging the eye opening that the other groups don't have; 'blacks' have much darker brown skin and tightly curled hair; whites have lighter skin, narrower noses, and more bodily hair than the other two groups."l Races are just part of what the world consists of, like stars, trees, and animals. A THEORETICAL FRAMEWOR...

ETHICS IN GENERAL LIFE

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ETHICS There are two types of ethics. To begin, ethics refers to well-founded moral norms that dictate what humans should do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, societal advantages, justice, or special virtues. Second, the study and development of one's ethical ideals is referred to as ethics. Ethics, also called moral philosophy, the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. The term is also applied to any system or theory of moral values or principles. Ethics is a set of moral principles at its most basic level. They have an impact on how people make choices and live their lives. Ethics, often known as moral philosophy, is concerned with what is beneficial for individuals and society. The word ethos comes from the Greek word meaning "custom, habit, character, or temperament." Uses of ethics If ethical theories are to be relevant in practice, they must have an impact on how people act. Ethics, according to certain thinker...