Gender and Education

• Men and women should have access to the same educational opportunities;

• Males and females should be accepted onto courses according to their abilities;

• It is wrong to discriminate against students because of their gender;

• Gender should be irrelevant in education;

• Student’s achievements should depend on hard work and individual merit;

• In the UK, there are similar numbers of male and female students in higher education.

Gender and Work

• Men and women should have access to the same professional opportunities;

• Both man and women should be able to pursue a career;

• They should earn equal salaries;

• They should be employed according to their abilities, qualifications and experience;

• Traditionally women have been restricted to certain roles;

• They were often employed as secretaries or receptionists;

• Nowadays, a range of occupations is available to both sexes;

• Career success depends on individual merit.

Women’s and Men’s Roles in the Family

• Some people argue that a mother should not work;

• She should stay at home and bring up her children;

• The father should be the breadwinner of the family;

• Others believe that both parents should share these responsibilities;

• Working women can take maternity leave during and after pregnancy;

• Many mothers continue to work after this period;

• Many fathers and mothers share their parenting and domestic responsibilities;

• They contribute equally to childcare, cooking and cleaning;

• Some women may have better career prospects than their husbands;

• Paternity leave and ‘househusbands’ are becoming more common;

• Traditional gender roles are gradually changing;

• Families can divide roles and responsibilities in the most convenient way.

Women, due to societal and community-based factors work harder than men. This is due to the fact that many women have full-time or part-time employment outside of the home, and then they come home and do more of the house work than their male counterparts. Women often work all day and then have to do a "second shift" which involves raising the children, cooking meals, and doing most of the chores in the home. Though women don't necessarily work harder than men, many times they are more dedicated to the performance of the position. Women tend to take more pride in the outcome of what they do. Most women will go out of their way to meet proffection where as men are not dedicated to that way of thinking.  Women can endure pain, support their children, take care of the house and herself, can work either part-time or full-time job, while men can make nearly half of that! Apparently, women raise their kids to be powerful just like them, while men would do that but not officially the kid will be 100 percent mature. Women can endure the pain of pregnancy, once and twice. But men can't even be pregnant.