Society derives gender roles from religious doctrines and some derive them from thoughts and ideas derived from Darwinism. At a point when Darwinism introduced ideas that the best genes are transferred to the male rather the female, men in general became psychologically programmed that they were the superior species. Such ideas of male superiority and others from religious doctrines, male instructed the females what their role in life was. Taking care of the household was thought of a job that is useless and so should be allocated to the useless sex i.e. The female. Some religious doctrines like Islam however did correct such views and told people, that taking care of the household is as important as being the bread earner and gave women a higher status than man. However if man had not taken the view that he is superior and not instructed the women and defined...
This psychological thought made many women to sexually segregate themselves.
In my personal opinion none of the sexes have a harder time than the other. They are both equal in the roles that they do play in society. Even women who today take care of the household are doing as much as the male. Humans all over the world whether male or female are equal and none should feel that they are inferior to the other because of the role that they play. It is important that ideas like "I am doing more and working harder" should be discarded and realization should be brought about that no matter what one does, he is not in any way superior or having a harder time. Respect should be given to all for what they do.
