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Can we take John's tentative principle, modify it, and apply it to women?

Everyone agrees that women have been discriminated against in many ways. (They were, for example, denied the right to vote in many elections in many states until 1919.)

Was that discrimination morally wrong? Was it a violation of individual moral rights? Was it an injustice for which some form of compensation is allowable or required?

To answer these questions we need a theory of justice and, perhaps, a theory of rights.