. It became the battle to overcome the universal idea that women were pervasive and inferior. Educating themselves became one of their most significant means.
             On the contrary, what happens when that battle goes so far as to interfere with a man's ability to educate himself? Should the same laws of Equal Protection apply to all individuals the same; even though in reality we are all different? Does the State, as a public sector, have the moral and lawful duty to ensure that each and every unique entity is afforded access to the same opportunity? Absolutely.
             The composition that follows will attempt to demonstrate that creating a double standard to protect women really just undermines the objective. It feeds into stereotypes and in turn creates an opportunity for further prejudice and oppression. The barriers to equality can not be overcome with the same ideologies that instituted them. The definition of equality changes among generations and across different lands, but for the focus of this paper it will be the idea of "getting women into the workforce, assuring women with political power, breaking down all personality and task differences based on sex, and getting rid of archaic laws designed to force women to stay in their homes" against their true wishes. As put by New York State Education Commissioner, "Equality is not when a female Einstein gets promoted to assistant professor; equality is when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel."
             The Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution is stated as follows:
             "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State Deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, w...