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Sociology of Law Assignment Solution

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Sociology of Law Assignment Solution

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Sociology of Law 2Topic: Law gives everyone equal opportunity. Critical discussion with a focus on gender.Australian Human Rights Commission defines equality as a state in which everyone insociety shares the same rights, freedom and equal access to universal services resulting to equaltreatment and same level of respect. Karl Max present the society divided into a class of havesand haves who the law applies to differently, this means that the law might not give everyoneequal opportunity and the same applies to gender, where cases of gender discrimination havebeen observed. Feminists have heard conflict in understanding this term equality especiallyconsidering what it entails (Harriet,1968), does it mean equal status, responsibility or opportunityfor both genders or otherwise even as Gillian concludes that women have a ‘different voice’ tomen. This paper interrogates equal opportunity provision by laws especially in Australia. I willargue in this paper that the law does not give everyone equal opportunity due to societal factorswhich mostly focuses on female stereotypes in the society and unequal power in the society. Iwill conclude by arguing that the source of inequality of the law especially in light with femalediscrimination is unequal distribution of power in the society.Feminists and some scholars have sought to look at equality as formal equality which isdifferent from equality in that formal equality is the provision or treatment that is identicalirrespective of the difference that the law is applied to (Harriet,1968). Recognizing the positionof men in the law sector as superior there therefore cannot be equal opportunity if all the menwill be treated the same as women as Catherine McKinnon quoted that the law should not as itdoes aim at producing ‘sameness’ rather it should deal with issues as they differently in light ofthe situation.The first set of feminists were concerned with their exclusion from normal activities inthe government and they tried to use the court to complain against this issue of nether voting nor
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