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GUATEMALA: AN UNEQUAL AND
DIVERSE COUNTRY
STATUS OF WOMEN IN GUATEMALA
ADVANCE FOR WOMEN EQUALITY
Beijing
Declaration
(1995)
Peace
Agreemen
ts
(1996)
National
Women’s
Forum
(1997)
Social equality is a state of affairs in which all
people within a specific society or isolated group
have the same status in certain respects,
civil rights, freedom of speech, property rights
and equal access to certain social goods and
services. However, it also includes concepts of
health equity, economic equality and other social
securities. It also includes equal opportunities
obligations, and so involves the whole of society.
Social equality requires the absence of legally
enforced social class or caste boundaries and the
absence of discrimination motivated by an
inalienable part of a person's identity. For
example, sex, gender, race, age, sexual
origin, caste or class, income or property,
language, religion, convictions, opinions, health
disability must not result in unequal treatment
under the law and should not reduce
opportunities unjustifiably
Information ethics is impartial and universal because it brings to ultimate completion the
process of enlargement of the concept of what may count as a centre of a (no matter how
minimal) moral claim, which now includes every instance of being understood informationally,
no matter whether physically implemented or not. In this respect information ethics holds that
every entity as an expression of being, has a dignity constituted by its mode of existence and
essence (the collection of all the elementary properties that constitute it for what it is), which
deserve to be respected (at least in a minimal and overridable sense), and hence place moral
claims on the interacting agent and ought to contribute to the constraint and guidance of his
ethical decisions and behaviour.
Floridi goes onto claim that this
"ontological equality principle means
that any form of reality (any instance of
information/being), simply for the fact of
being what it is, enjoys a minimal, initial,
overridable, equal right to exist and
develop in a way which is appropriate to
its nature." Values in his claims correlate
to those shown in the sociological
textbook You May Ask Yourself by
Dalton Conley. The notion of
"ontological equality" describes equality
by saying everything is equal by nature.
Everyone is created equal at birth.
Everything has equal right to exist and
develop by its nature.
The standard of equality that states
everyone is created equal at birth is
called ontological equality. This type
of equality can be seen in many
different places like the Declaration of
Independence. This early document,
which states many of the values of the
United States of America, has this idea
of equality embedded in it. It clearly
states that "all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights". The
statement reflects the philosophy of
John Locke and his idea that we are all
equal in certain natural rights
• Equal opportunities" is interpreted as
being judged by ability, which is
compatible with a free-market
economy. Relevant problems are
horizontal inequality − the inequality
of two persons of same origin and
ability and differing opportunities
given to individuals − such as in
education or by inherited capital.
• Conceivements of social equality may
vary per philosophy and individual and
other than egalitarianism it does not
necessarily require all social
inequalities to be eliminated by
artificial means but instead often
recognizes and respects natural
differences between people.
Another standard of equality is equality of opportunity, "the
idea that everyone has an equal chance to achieve wealth,
social prestige, and power because the rules of the game, so
to speak, are the same for everyone".[2] This concept can be
applied to society by saying that no one has a head start.
This means that, for any social equality issue dealing with
wealth, social prestige, power, or any of that sort, the
equality of opportunity standard can defend the idea that
everyone had the same start. This views society almost as a
game and any of the differences in equality are due to luck
and playing the "game" to one's best ability.
This concept points out factors like race, gender, class etc. that should not be
considered when talking about equality through this notion. Conley also
mentions that this standard of equality is at the heart of a bourgeois society,
such as a modern capitalist society, or "a society of commerce in which the
maximization of profit is the primary business incentive“. It was the equal
opportunity ideology that civil rights activists adopted in the era of the Civil
Rights Movement in the 1960s. This ideology was used by them to argue that
Jim Crow laws were incompatible with the standard of equality of opportunity
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Equality

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  • 3. GUATEMALA: AN UNEQUAL AND DIVERSE COUNTRY
  • 4. STATUS OF WOMEN IN GUATEMALA
  • 5. ADVANCE FOR WOMEN EQUALITY Beijing Declaration (1995) Peace Agreemen ts (1996) National Women’s Forum (1997)
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  • 7. Social equality is a state of affairs in which all people within a specific society or isolated group have the same status in certain respects, civil rights, freedom of speech, property rights and equal access to certain social goods and services. However, it also includes concepts of health equity, economic equality and other social securities. It also includes equal opportunities obligations, and so involves the whole of society. Social equality requires the absence of legally enforced social class or caste boundaries and the absence of discrimination motivated by an inalienable part of a person's identity. For example, sex, gender, race, age, sexual origin, caste or class, income or property, language, religion, convictions, opinions, health disability must not result in unequal treatment under the law and should not reduce opportunities unjustifiably
  • 8. Information ethics is impartial and universal because it brings to ultimate completion the process of enlargement of the concept of what may count as a centre of a (no matter how minimal) moral claim, which now includes every instance of being understood informationally, no matter whether physically implemented or not. In this respect information ethics holds that every entity as an expression of being, has a dignity constituted by its mode of existence and essence (the collection of all the elementary properties that constitute it for what it is), which deserve to be respected (at least in a minimal and overridable sense), and hence place moral claims on the interacting agent and ought to contribute to the constraint and guidance of his ethical decisions and behaviour.
  • 9. Floridi goes onto claim that this "ontological equality principle means that any form of reality (any instance of information/being), simply for the fact of being what it is, enjoys a minimal, initial, overridable, equal right to exist and develop in a way which is appropriate to its nature." Values in his claims correlate to those shown in the sociological textbook You May Ask Yourself by Dalton Conley. The notion of "ontological equality" describes equality by saying everything is equal by nature. Everyone is created equal at birth. Everything has equal right to exist and develop by its nature.
  • 10. The standard of equality that states everyone is created equal at birth is called ontological equality. This type of equality can be seen in many different places like the Declaration of Independence. This early document, which states many of the values of the United States of America, has this idea of equality embedded in it. It clearly states that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". The statement reflects the philosophy of John Locke and his idea that we are all equal in certain natural rights
  • 11. • Equal opportunities" is interpreted as being judged by ability, which is compatible with a free-market economy. Relevant problems are horizontal inequality − the inequality of two persons of same origin and ability and differing opportunities given to individuals − such as in education or by inherited capital. • Conceivements of social equality may vary per philosophy and individual and other than egalitarianism it does not necessarily require all social inequalities to be eliminated by artificial means but instead often recognizes and respects natural differences between people.
  • 12. Another standard of equality is equality of opportunity, "the idea that everyone has an equal chance to achieve wealth, social prestige, and power because the rules of the game, so to speak, are the same for everyone".[2] This concept can be applied to society by saying that no one has a head start. This means that, for any social equality issue dealing with wealth, social prestige, power, or any of that sort, the equality of opportunity standard can defend the idea that everyone had the same start. This views society almost as a game and any of the differences in equality are due to luck and playing the "game" to one's best ability.
  • 13. This concept points out factors like race, gender, class etc. that should not be considered when talking about equality through this notion. Conley also mentions that this standard of equality is at the heart of a bourgeois society, such as a modern capitalist society, or "a society of commerce in which the maximization of profit is the primary business incentive“. It was the equal opportunity ideology that civil rights activists adopted in the era of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. This ideology was used by them to argue that Jim Crow laws were incompatible with the standard of equality of opportunity