ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors observe that justice operates as a set of “claims.” Claims are based on various grounds, such as the principles or precepts denoted by terms like fairness, merit need, rights, duty, equality, and equity. Justice is an old concept with a rich history, a concept which is fundamental to any discussion of how society ought to be organized. Justice in general and social justice in particular involve the distribution of benefits and burdens, but distributive justice has come to be synonymous with economic justice, that is, with the distribution of economic benefits and burdens. Development with justice calls urgently for measures that will give women access to better jobs; that will diminish the arduous tasks that hundreds of millions of women face in their domestic and agricultural occupations; and that will distribute more fairly between the sexes opportunities for creative work and economic advancement.
