Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes n…

Steven Pinker
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Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology. ✨ Steven Pinker (2003). The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, p.451, Penguin
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