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Question 5- Explain the difference between formal (or procedural) equality and substantive equality. Formal equality is known as the formal, legal equality. This is the equality that is seen as one law should be applied to all people, social and personal characteristics are no factor.
(The only right that the Constitution specifically affirms to be equal for women and men is the right to vote by the 19th Amendment of 1920.) The 14th Amendmentâs equal protection clause has never been interpreted to guarantee equal rights for women as the Equal Rights Amendment would do.nother reason to reopen the debate and adopt an Equal Rights Amendment is the current discrimination between women and menâs wages. It has been shown that women are paid 77 cents to every dollar earned by men fifty years after President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act.