Hilde Lindemann offers us a brief overview of feminist ethics in this selection. She first discusses the nature of feminism and identifies some of the various ways that people have defined it. Lindemann argues against thinking of feminism as focused primarily on equality, women, or the differences between the sexes.

Are central to moral motivation and moral discovery. Feminist ethicists tend to think that our behavior should be based on? A sensitive appreciation of the complexities of a situation.

Feminists ethics is not a moral theory so much as an alternative way of looking at the concepts and concerns of the moral life. It’s an approach focused on women’s interests and experiences and devoted to supporting the moral equality of women and men.

Feminist ethics rejects the unification of ethics under a supreme moral principle. Morality is complicated and messy. Feminists also often oppose the impartiality and abstraction that characterize traditional ethical theories. They value partiality (to loved ones) and attention to the particulars of situations.

Despite the similarity of those two terms, they represent different theoretical approaches. “Feminine” refers to a search for women’s unique voice and advocates for an ethic of care. “Feminist” refers to an argument against male domination and advocates for equal rights.

Traditional ethics prizes masculine cultural traits like “independence, autonomy, intellect, will, wariness, hierarchy, domination, culture, transcendence, product, asceticism, war, and death,” and gives less weight to culturally feminine traits like “interdependence, community, connection, sharing, emotion, body.

A feminist ethic, which paid attention to these different identities and perspectives, became centrally important to taking women’s lives and experiences seriously, and central to eliminating oppression of women, sexual minorities, and other oppressed groups.

Gender equitable societies are healthier for everyone. As feminism challenges restrictive gender norms, improvements in women’s access to health care, reproductive rights, and protection from violence have positive effects on everyone’s life expectancy and well-being, especially children.

Gender impacts our health and wellbeing outcomes 2 to 3 times more women than men experience mental health problems like depression and anxiety. Harmful stereotypes about sexuality and body image play a part in this. The gender pay gap and Inequality at work puts women at higher risk of physical and mental illness.

Women live longer than men but spend fewer years in good health. The gender pay and pension gaps, 16.3% and 38% respectively, put older women in particular at risk of poverty and social exclusion which creates barriers to health services.

An analysis published in The Lancet Global Health, in 2018, found that more than a quarter of adults globally are insufficiently physically active. Across most countries, women are less active than men (global average of 31·7% for inactive women vs 23·4% for inactive men).

Older women are generally more sedentary and less active than older men, but little is known about the specific factors underlying the differences between the genders in physical activity (PA).

Everyone benefits from gender equality. Gender equality helps prevent violence against women and girls and makes our communities safer and healthier. It is a human right and it is good for the economy.

Not only does it affect the lives of individual men and women, but the inequality between genders also stunts economic growth and hinders development. Gender equality benefits everyone, which is why it has been nominated as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UN SDG) 5: Gender Equality.

Five Ways to Fight Gender Inequality

1. Give girls access to education. There are 130 million girls in the world who are not in school.
2. Give women platforms to be in power and achieve economic success.
3. End violence and sexual assault against women.
4. Assure girls and women have access to menstrual health facilities.
5. End child marriage.

Introduction. Gender is an important consideration in development. It is a way of looking at how social norms and power structures impact on the lives and opportunities available to different groups of men and women. Globally, more women than men live in poverty.