The Gender Justice Framework

Sor Juana explicitly challenged the assumption that women lacked capacity for serious intellectual work, proving through her scholarship that gender-based exclusion was injustice, not natural law. Her defenses of women's learning capacities became blueprints for gender justice across cultures. Every civilization that progressed toward fairness expanded rights and opportunities to those previously excluded by gender. Sor Juana understood that denying women education, property rights, or voice in public affairs violated the principles all societies claim to value. Her work demonstrates that true fairness requires recognizing women as full intellectual and moral agents entitled to participate in all domains of knowledge and governance. Gender justice means examining systems that restrict opportunity based on sex and dismantling those barriers. Sor Juana's legacy insists that fairness is incomplete when half the population is prevented from developing their potential, contributing their wisdom, or claiming their rights.