The Equality Of Men And Women In Ethics Angle And Path Dependence

The equality of men and women is the eternal topic and lofty pursuit of human society. Throughout the history of the West and Chinese, Many theory schools experienced a long and deep research and development about the equality between men and women in the deep and complex social and cultural background. About the definition of "gender", both in the natural relationship like differences in appearance, voice, body organs etc, and the three reflections, group behavior bias of formation in the long-term social environment. Under the deepening of the understanding of "gender", especially the female character’s life experience, social behavior have more and more important impact for the construction of harmonious, healthy social atmosphere. In the academic fields of many countries, the problem between men and women has become an independent research system. Reflection and condemned the gender inequality so as to realize the harmony and improve.This paper firstly analyzes the evolution process of the history of equality between men and women’. In western countries such as the earliest liberal feminism in the late eighteenth century, criticize the social system especially the legal injustice in the gender, pursue women’s right of education, political and economic; Radicalism feminism in the sixty’s or seventy’s of last century, against the patriarchal concept as its core theory, tried to break away from the world of male standard view, stressed to establish a model for the female subject; Marx feminism born in the late seventy’s of twentieth century, based on the theory of economic basis and superstructure, from the theory of surplus value and alienation to analysis the source of inequality between the relationship of men and women, Pointed out that the subsidiary position of women in the production mode of capitalist, result the deprivation and isolation of women’s surplus value, In the history of Chinese, men have the dominant position of traditional feudal society for a long time, shouting and fighting of women always very less, the spreading of western feminism promote the germination and growth of the emancipation thought of Chinese women. Eventually formed a kind of "gender equality" concept is men and women are the same.In the historical background of that time, the generally advocated gender equality of men and women are the same has a very positive impact to change the stubborn idea residues in the social culture think that women are inferior to men and to improve the social status of women and to shape the glorious image of women. However, our country is in the key time of social transformation, how to use the intelligence and potential of men and women comprehensive in the increasingly complex and changeable international and domestic background is an imminent question. Therefore, the second part of this paper mainly from the education field to description the traditional mode of education in china. This mode has a gender ambiguity, means men and women are absolute same. This equality of education established in a abstract concept, stressed the importance of equality, but Ignore the gender differences in the biological sense, and the culture difference in the process of personal growth too, cause gender discrimination unintentional in the pursuit of equality. This will be a serious impediment to allocation of human resources and social resources. This is not only a social problem, but also a historical legacy.After understand the theory defects about the absolute equality of men and women, the third part of this paper introduced the western ideas of caring theory, pointed out that men and women have absolute different physiological and psychological characteristics, to achieve true equality is not just the literal meaning of "equality", but should be targeted differently and through "inequality" to achieve "equality". Given the care quality to the relationship between men and women, to stressed the importance of care, upbringing, sympathy and communication in ethics, focus on gender differences between men and women really, pay attention to the great value and significance of women themselves as well as the associated with the family in the production and life of mankind, in order to construct a harmonious and complete social environment and system fairly.