平等的中断——反思20世纪90年代以来的男女平等与性别公正问题

The Suspension of Equality:A Reflection on the Problem of Gender Equality between Men and Women Since the 1990s

从20世纪90年代中期之后,争取男女平等的目标,在理论和实践上都遇到了前所未有的新挑战。而值得关注与思考的是,在社会分化、平等中断的状况之下,对男女平等的诉求本应更为强烈,但实际上关于男女平等的理论讨论和实践逐渐淡化,而对于性别公正的讨论逐渐兴起,有一部分学者提出以性别公正取代男女平等的观点。事实上,社会主义的男女平等理论并没有消失,更不应消失,不论是在公共权利还是个人权利方面,都需要重新探讨其在今天的理论和实践上的意义。

Since the middle of the 1990s, the aim to obtain the equality between men and women has met unprecedented challenges both in theory and in practice, and gender equality has been suspended. What merits our attention is while the claim for gender equality should have become stronger in a divided society where gender equality has been suspended, the theoretical discussion and practice that are related to gender equality have been in fact petering out. In contrast, the discus- sion over gender equity has begun to gain its momentum, and some scholars propose to replace the term gender equality with gender equity. What should be pointed out is that the theory of socialist gender equality does not, and should not, dis- appear. Its theoretical and practical significance should be explored again both in the field of public rights and in the field of individual rights.