Gender Roles Debate

I'm not sure women had all that many rights. A man could theoretically go on working and support himself and his children. The woman might not have had the opportunity to support herself, let alone children if she has any. Not only that, but women have been (and are) taught to behave this way from the time they are young, so they've been programmed to do such thing. It is really, really difficult to parse out a sex being good/bad, more caring or not when the two sexes have been un

Maybe the comment refers to the changes in gender roles over the past decades. Our society no longer widely accepts the idea that women are fragile and men have the responsibility to protect them.

Perhaps what you should be seeing is the forest and not the individual trees. It was not too long ago that women in the west did not have the vote, I'm sure they would not have been allowed cell phones if they existed back then. Now however they have equality with men in the eyes of the law and are in the main treated as such. Yes there are some areas where improvements can still be made but would you prefer to be protesting for women to have the right to make their own decisions (as oppose

I agree with the overall sentiment, but the idea of males and females going through life in exactly the same manner (without an implied role) is quite novel in human history. There are likely unsolved problems here. That females seem to openly suggest being educated apart from males, after extensive lobbying to the opposite effect, is an almost humorous illustration.

Let me guess without reading the article. Is it because of the Patriarchy?

That was not historical norm really. It happened once on side of titanic partly and in most situations there was no ordering. Yes, men died in wars. Then you had areas with many women and less men. The men were the ones making decisions still, voting, owning property, having accounts and the ones who were supposed to be head of household and women the ones considered stupider and having less options.Male physical power and inability to be pregnant had a lot to do with most of this. Obviously.

I'm getting a bit tired of this fake modern-thinking. I don't think anyone is disregarding women right to self determination by making an observation that is obvious.There are jobs and social roles that are clearly perused mostly by men and some mostly by women. That's because man and women are different. There's nothing wrong with that, do we need to pretend that men and women are equal to grant equal rights to both?So this woman is an exception, minority if you prefer, but so what? I fe

I highly doubt this is the way the majority of society views male vs female gender roles in this area. Your egalitarianism is, imo, not demonstrative of the social standard on this issue.

There’s a lot to unpack here, but just to touch on a few issues with this premise:1) If men were simply trying to protect women from unpleasantness, there would be no need to ban women from additive things like education, property ownership, spiritual leadership, medical autonomy, etc.2) Women have been performing difficult, uncomfortable work (think agriculture and factories) alongside men this whole time; the occupations women were prevented to hold tended to be the cushier ones in law,