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There is no job, he states,
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that cannot be performed equally well by both men and women.
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Is Socrates a feminist?
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Gender differences, he says, are no more relevant
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when it comes to positions of political rule
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than is the distinction between being bald and being hairy.
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Socrates is not saying that men and women are the same in every respect,
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he says, but equal with respect to competing for any job at all.
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There will be no glass ceilings in Kallipolis.
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The first, in many ways, great defender, the first
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great champion of the emancipation of women from the household.
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But this proposal comes at certain costs, he tells us.