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Liberty and Justice for All Thomas Jefferson, in The Declaration of Independence, wrote “all men are created equal” and we today assume that this means men and women, but the real case is actually far from the truth. While women have gained an increasing level of equality, there is still much to be done. The term equality implies that some benchmark exists, providing a standard by which we may measure things against. In this way, we could determine whether someone is above the line and getting more than his or her fair share, or below it and getting less than his or her due. To bring those above and below the benchmark to the same point on that line is to mete out justice. Justice is the process whereby we generate equality. As the African-Americans who struggled for their civil rights showed, just because the government provides for the rights of its citizens does not mean it does so with equality and justice. In the case of women’s rights, the United States government does not provide economic equality, and its failure to do so has denied women justice. Income is an area of disparity between men and women in which an obvious statistical standard exists. The notion of “equal pay for equal work” is still just