New perspectives need to be addressed. Some socially conservative women expect the government to write laws that will require men to fulfill their obligations. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1987. If school rules or administrative policy offer a class required for graduation only in the daytime when some students who need to take that class work days, the rule does not treat all students equally and fairly. Some students are coerced into taking time off from a job, or into not graduating, or into changing majors.
Rules can be coercive, even though they appear, on the face of it, to be neutral.
In that sense, the rule itself is coercive. There may indeed be no perpetrator who meant harm to anyone, yet the rules, simply because they do not take some normative expectations into account, may have a discriminatory effect. Cornell University Press, 1990. Martha Minow is Professor of Law at Harvard University. When assumptions remain unstated, those in power are privileging their subjectivity.