This case was surrounded around many other sex discrimination cases. The Craig v. Boren case was brought up because Oklahoma's Representative, Dan Boren, thought that by changing the age of the distribution of alcohol, it would fix many other problems in Oklahoma as well. Statistics show that there were more male drunk driving accidents and injuries than women's drunk driving accidents. By creating this new law the authorities thought that it would decrease the amount of drunk driving accidents, not seeing that it was affecting their own personal rights, like of Appellant Craig, a male then between eighteen and twenty-one years old, and appellant Whitener, a licensed vendor of 3.2% beer. Oklahoma then tried to put in a new traffic law to decrease the rate of accidents. A new equal protection law was set into play. The equal protection law gave both sexes the same amount of rights as equal individuals, making no one deprived of any rights because of their sex, eliminating gender based discrimination.