Feminist Ethics and Everyday Inequalities

How should feminist philosophers regard the inequalities that structure the lives of women? Some of these inequalities are trivial and others are not; together they form a framework of unequal treatment that shapes women\u27s lives. This paper asks what priority we should give inequalities that affect women; it critically analyzes Claudia Card\u27s view that feminists ought to give evils priority. Sometimes ending gender-based inequalities is the best route to eliminating gender-based evil