Feminist Ethics: The Evolution Of Feminist Ethics?

The worldwide feminism movement arguably started back in 1848 with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention. Afterwards, with the acquisition of women suffrage in America in 1920, both women and men continued to fight for women’s rights. Although, as of today, there is still a fight to gain total autonomy and equality for women, which not only has the support of women, but also the support of men. Could this be feminist ethics? According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, feminist ethics is defined as attempt to revise, reformulate, or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women 's moral experience. This encyclopedia states that feminist philosopher Alison

This is not a problem that men are facing right now, but as humans, we are all afraid of losing something once we gain it. However, feminist ethics is attempting to just level the playing field. It hopes to achieve equality among the sexes so that women are not looked down upon by men. It aspires to bring more femininity into traditional ethics, rather than replace traditional ethics all together, so that males are able to understand the morals of females. Feminist ethics knows there is a difference between the sexes, as Frye suggests when she states, “the sex of a person is relevant”. There is a difference between the sexes physically, but all that feminist ethics is trying to do is to bridge the gap between the thoughts of the sexes so that they can understand what each other is going through. Furthermore, feminist ethics is trying to advance the interests of women so it has the same importance and priority as the interests of men. There is no intention to push for the superiority of women interests over men interests, but the push to make people deal with the interests of one sex on a basis of merit and gravity rather on the basis of sex. Also, feminist ethics is pursuing an expansion of ethics into the private sphere, where females tend to be the majority of workers and handlers. This is important because then the women will be able to apply the same ethics as they apply in the public sphere in the private sphere. It will also let men understand the ethics and thought process that is going on in the minds of women in the private sphere. Feminist ethics is not contending to be a separate and novel set of ethics compared to traditional ethics; instead, it is just simply aiming to expand the reach of traditional ethics to incorporate femininity and feminist