Being a woman is more difficult than being a man.... Your opinion, please

Yes, its hard to be a woman. Your doing the house chores, cooking and washing the clothes and OH, the risky here is giving birth. But what woman proves now is [/b]"WE"[b] can do what a man can do. I believe its not the gender at all, Woman is more flexible than man, I know not in all aspects but almost. So, children, daughter, son..You should love your Mother because without them you will never see the world. LOL, ofcourse you should love your parents together.

I must agree in some cases that you wrote here. In the job womens have quite harder and have smaller payouts (why? I don't know). I am refering to the situation in my country. Rarely you can se a boss that is a woman and may say that only her professionalism took her in this place where she is now. Woman must play multiple roles in the life. Sometimes few in the same time (working moms for example). In this case yes, womans have harder life than mens. But there are others cases in the life that I think make it a little more fair. There are also moments in life when a men must make sacrifice from his life, or his dreams, or when he must play multiple roles too. Typically mens must make harder life decisions than womans. Not always, but not always womans have hard too. So I say that it is quite equal after all. Maybe womans have a little bit harder, but not soo much harder. Ofcourse I am not refering to the exceptions. If you ask me about capabilities of womans and mens... this is scientifically comfirmed that mens are better with some things than womans and vice versa. This is a perfect situation I think. If a men can't do something then let the woman do it. When woman can't do something let the men do it. It's simply. Noone is better then other couse we both are diffrent and good in diffrent things.

I agree with you. Now I live in The United States. So if I am discriminated against, i go someplace else. I know women in other countries do not have this option.

It is a fact that women are weaker than men, and that's why the latter takes advantage of women's weakness. Though men have weaknesses too, we are all aware that women are more prejudiced, discriminated, and even abused. I am not generalizing but most women are weak on physical, emotional, and psychological, all the aspects 'ruled' by men. I am not a feminist too, but I am a female and I know how hard it is to walk on streets at night unaccompanied, worrying about your safety. Well, some of women nowadays engage in physical training, like on martial arts and on self-defense, to be able to protect themselves for abuse. Well, let's just face reality that men are stronger than women. And, it's difficult to be a woman even if men have more responsibilities.

i also agree with you,,,it would be hard to erase because we are a sociaty of old customs...and old customs are hard to change...

well, i thinks i believe that being a women is difficult. because if we consider their physical strenght. men are strong than women. one women cannot fight for three man but one man can fight for three women. i hope this will clear all your mind.

it is always difficult being a woman. i think its more so in some countries. i have seen this. whatever the society say that it has progressed a lot, it still needs time to do so.

Very simple really... If God had wanted men and women to be the same and equal... he would not have created Eve. What's the point of creating two which are both the same? While the feminist have given women their freedom from being tied up in the kitchen... women today have to deal with all the problems in the world like men had to do since the beginning of time. So yes... women did gain their freedom... but for every gain... there is a price... and they are paying the price for it in many ways. It would not surprise me if in the next 20 or 30 years... women were to throw feminism out of the window and go back to be house wives. After all... we continually hear that women are smarter than men. There is nothing much very smart about feminism.

Honestly I don't feel discriminated. I live in the Philippines and I work in an IT company. I am part of the management and I earn a good enough salary for a single woman like me. I really enjoy being a woman. I like the perks, the freedom to be who I am. I like being emotional and at the same being analytical. Maybe some women don't have this kind of experience and I am sorry for that. But I am thankful I was born female and that I have the brains and body to go with it.

Hmm.. Everything boils down to one point: "Everyone has the right to their opinion" :) Yes, there are women who are discriminated, but there are men too who are discriminated. Yes, there are women who are harassed, but there are men too who are being harassed. Yes, there are places where women are considered second class citizens, but there are countries too who give too much rights to women that men are traumatized (hehe.. true, it's true, I've talked to several men about it). So in reality, we created the world we are in and we have to deal about it. I am a woman but I'm not against women neither am I pro-women at all times. But sadly, the way I see things, women have created problems for themselves. I mean, look how things have changed these days where instead of 'listening' to our husbands, we raise our voices and refuse to 'listen' because we shout WE HAVE RIGHTS!, but instead of creating a home we have found ourselves competing against our partners. I know a lot of women would be angry at my analysis but we all know it's true anyways. I'm not speaking for everyone but I say to myself, it's time to close my ears to such qualms of rights because if we want equality, we must be ready to give it as well. It's not a matter of who's right, but it's a matter of how partners should communicate to make the relationship better, and when I say 'communicate' I mean someone has to shut up for the other to speak. :) Yes, we do need to value women because she is the light of the home but we must also value men because he has done his fair share in building our homes. We mustn't undermine a gender because no one would exist if these two genders didn't unite themselves as equals at one point in their lives. :)

Gender discrimination does exist and admittedly around the world its worse for women. However Friendship, in several first world countries its actually easier to be a woman than a man, i.e. the gender discrimination is in reverse. This can be found not just at the workplace, but in laws, judgments, even society itself. Women are praised constantly, but men aren't. Men are usually depicted as shallow, forgetful, foolish, almost charicature like (just look at blogs, comments, TV commercials, the dreaded sitcoms, hint: even mylot discussions). Men are usually not good enough in the eyes of women and the degree of this varies depending on the situation. Women can do no wrong and on the other hand men are always wrong. (example: http://www.crosswalk.com/1396369/print/) Also in society men too can be rather trecherous to each other namely for competition or opposite gender attention (obviously...). Another item, its funny when males get injured (be it in fiction or even reality... http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=2143) In law, women sometimes get lighter sentences for crimes, or even worse than that zero punishment. The first things that come to mind are false accusations and domestic abuse. If a woman commits either she's in a much better position due to advantage and legal standing (for abuse: men are automatically assumed the perpetrator regardless of who really did what, for false accusations: it goes on the societal assumption that women don't lie about these things). And typically in divorce the woman is favoured over the male. She'll get custody and the majority of assets, he'll be diminished significantly. In terms of crime and conduct, men and fathers are looked at with more suspicion (example: http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=2158) I bring this up to get people thinking. There is more to the situation than what was initially shared. Sadly, I feel there may never be any end to either type of gender discrimination.

I agree with your opinion. Still woman has no freedom.. As you have said Man & woman has their own strengths and weekness. When considered work envirnment in most of the cases both cant fit into all type of jobs/places... This is indeed creating the feeling of difference.. From ancient times, women is fitted into kitchen while men were into farms..This indeed created freedom differnce between men and woman. Now most of the countries are developing and being developed. Although there are still thoughts equal rights for woman as man, But I feel bad about still woman is not given respect /power in decision making.

Hi. I agree with you. I also think that both man and woman should be treated the same. However, in some cultures, patriarchy is still dominant. Thus, woman are not able to practice their rights. It's so sad.

It is a practical issue,gender discrimination do exist in our society.But people in different cultures have different social awareness.In western countries,women are more concerned about whether their rights of equality with men.But in most eastern counrties,lots of people including women believe that women should assume more responsibilities in the family than men.If they refuse these duty,they won't be accepted by the whole society.

You have raised an interesting point. There is no second opinion about this that gender discrimination do exist in most of the societies. Women have concurred many fronts and they have come out of their houses and have touched many heights of glory, yet women in many societies are not treated at par with their counter parts. Those who do not know how to respect a woman, forget that without a woman, they could not have come into this world. It is a woman, who gave birth to them. A woman face more adverse situations than a man in her life, due to one reason or other. Fortunately, in some of the societies this trend is changing and women are being given their due status and they command the situation at work place and at their homes, in comparison to men. Excellent Post!

in the contrary, more are expected from men. And it pressures us so much that we want to be good and we want to be great. But not all want to be like that but men are expected to be that. It is hard. A lot of eyes are looking at us. Expecting us to be great.

It is harder in a lot of ways to be a woman than a man. we do not get equal pay for equal work, we are still second class in alot of industries, and a lot of husbands think wives are second class citizens as well and they go by all sort of biblical nonsense just to keep women subjugated under them. we need to get equal pay and to get equal respect from men too.

i m complety agree with you in india women is getting rights but as comparitively to us still we are far far away from a good life i agree few exceptions are there but still i feel man is getting better life comparitively.

I agree with you that being a woman is a lot tougher. Even now when women are seemingly equal to men, they're not. Look at what most women do: nurses, teachers, secretaries, sales person...It is not only a stereotype but what actually true and alive today! Even in some areas where men are outperformed by women, men are prefered, for example, interpreters, at least it is the case in my country. If one chooses to be a career woman, one has to put a lot of things in a secondary place, including relationships, family and stuff, but a man is more carefree. The visible inequality has disappeared, but the glass ceiling is up there.

It's not only discrimination that makes life tougher for women. Biologically speaking, women are having a harder time, they carry their offspring for nine months, they have monthly menstruation, they need to develop their physical strength because they have naturally weaker muscles. Add discrimination to that and it gets even worse. When you think about it though, there are things that women can do but men can't. One example is having the responsibility of carrying their babies for nine months which is a connection between a mother and her child which is beyond comparison to anything in this world. Can men do that? Of course not. Women are given such dignity and respect in major parts of the world, they're given flowers, they're honored, they're given courtesy. Are men given that honor without having to achieve something? Normally, no. Women doesn't need to prove about anything, because the existence of human beings, the growing population of people around the world, the talents that this people have, already proves that without women the world will be nothing.