Editing Egalitarianism (section)

==== Gender equality ====
The motto "{{lang|fr|[[Liberté, égalité, fraternité]]}}" was used during the [[French Revolution]] and is still used as an official motto of the French government. The 1789 [[Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen]] French Constitution is also framed with this basis in equal rights of humankind.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}

The [[Declaration of Independence of the United States]] is an example of an assertion of equality of men as "[[All men are created equal]]" and the wording of men and man is a reference to both men and women, i.e., mankind. [[John Locke]] is sometimes considered the founder of this form.<ref>{{Citation |last=Tuckness |first=Alex |title=Locke’s Political Philosophy |date=2024 |work=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-political/ |access-date=2025-03-05 |edition=Summer 2024 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |editor2-last=Nodelman |editor2-first=Uri}}</ref> Many state constitutions in the United States also use the rights of man language rather than rights of person{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} since the noun man has always been a reference to and an inclusion of both men and women.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Rauer |first1=Christine |year=2017 |title=Mann and Gender in Old English Prose: A Pilot Study |url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11061-016-9489-1.pdf |journal=Neophilologus |volume=101 |pages=139–158 |doi=10.1007/s11061-016-9489-1 |s2cid=55817181 |hdl-access=free |hdl=10023/8978}}</ref>

The [[Tunisian Constitution of 2014]] provides that "men and women shall be equal in their rights and duties".<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Tunisia_2014|title=The Constitution Project}}</ref>

[[Feminism]] is informed by egalitarian philosophy, being a gender-focused philosophy of equality. Feminism is distinguished from egalitarianism by also existing as a political and social movement.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fiss|first=Owen|date=1994|title=What is feminism|journal=Arizona State Law Journal|volume=26|pages=413–428|via=HeinOnline}}</ref>