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  • 10 - Gender and the metric of justice

    • By Ingrid Robeyns, Professor of Practical Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Edited by Harry Brighouse, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ingrid Robeyns, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
  • Book:
    Measuring Justice
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    28 January 2010, pp 215-236

  • Summary

    This chapter analyzes the difference between social primary goods and capabilities for the case of gender inequality and gender justice. It discusses the usefulness of the Rawlsian account of justice as fairness to analyze problems of gender injustice. Sally Haslanger's analysis of the concept of gender provides a good starting point. Haslanger defines gender in terms of the social positions that men and women occupy. The social primary goods metric is part of a political and ideal-theoretical conception of justice. But such a political and ideal-theoretical conception of justice brackets out the main sources and manifestations of gender injustice. Whether a plausible and convincing capability theory of justice that can fully integrate gender concerns will one day be developed remains to be seen. The chapter offers some arguments why the development of such theory may be worthwhile.