Women Have a Harder Lives Than Men

Women and Men Have the Same Level of Hardship in Life

Women give birth to children, they encounter a number of obstacles in the workplace such as sexual harassment and lower salaries and they face the danger of sexual harassment, but even given these hardships, men's lives are just as difficult. Men, since the times of cavemen, have been viewed by virtually every society and civilization as the bread-winners. A man's responsibility is to provide selflessly for his family and ensure their survival after he dies. In cavemen's times this involved hunting animals and physically building shelter for his family, but today it likely involves working at an office or a factory and investing in a life insurance policy.

Either way, the social responsibilities facing men are equivalent. Women have entered almost every niche in the workplace, but still it is almost universally accepted that the family's survival is the man's responsibility more than it is the woman's.

Men fight in wars and although women are well represented in the armed forces too, it is generally men who are sent into live-fire dangerous situations. Our armed forces are structures such that women face less enemy fire than men. The freedoms that we enjoy in life - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - are men's responsibility to protect from aggressors who would take those freedoms away.

Although women are very involved in politics, it is still men who predominate in that profession. Men make many of the policy decisions on the world stage - decisions of war and peace often lie with men. In our nuclear era, men hold the keys to these horribly destructive devices throughout the world and are responsible for using those weapons and bear that responsibility as well. Women are just as capable as men of leading countries, making decisions of war and peace, fighting in live-fire situations and handling their nations in a nuclear crisis, but in our world, men often assume these roles, and their associated hardships.

Raising children has long been the woman's role, but that is changing daily, at least in America. Companies are offering fathers paternity leave, recognizing the additional hardships men are undertaking in modern times with regard to raising their children. And men are taking on these additional responsibilities while maintaining their roles as primary bread-winners for their families, too. The combination of hardship and responsibility rivals women's primary roles as child-bearers and child-raisers.

Essentially, men face more pressure in life than women do. Women, in our society, may stay at home without having a career without drawing the ire of society. Men who are house-husbands, on the other hand, are frowned upon if they stay at home with the kids while allowing the wife to work. Men face the hardship of having to always work because of the social stigmas attached to staying at home.