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Probable attribution
This saying is widely associated with Mahatma Gandhi, but the attribution is not supported by a reliable primary source.
Likely origin: Statement of 17 October 1929; quoted in Gandhi: The Essential Writings, ed. Judith M. Brown (Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 228-9
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Equality here is concrete, not a slogan: the same legal footing, the same expectations, the same inheritance for a daughter as a son. The pull is to notice where a rule quietly burdens one and not the other, then close that gap rather than defend it.
When to use it
- Splitting an inheritance evenly between daughters and sons instead of favoring the boys.
- Paying two employees the same wage for the same job regardless of gender.
- Funding a daughter's university place on the same terms the family would offer a son.