The Debate (no.50); Male has an easier life than women

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Do you think men and women face different challenges in their daily lives? What are some examples?

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Of course men and women face different challenges in life. Just looking at the physical makeup, you will definitely know that they go through different things.

Women have challenges ranging from their menstrual cycle to pregnancy and to child birth. This process alone is enough challenge they go through all most for the rest of their lives and after that they even begin to train their children.

Men also go through challenges like chosen their right mate, plans of getting married, pressure of making money, and providing for his family daily.

Men and women have different challenges. Women are engrossed with cooking and taking care of her home, challenges of seeing to the needs of her husband too.

Women also go through challenges like gender inequality and early marriage and sexual abuse in some communities.

In your opinion, do men have more freedom in their choices compared to women? Why or why not?

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I would like to answer this question using my family as a case study. I am from a family of 5 kids. Am the 4th child. I have 3 brothers, 2 are older than me but I am older than the other one.

I noticed while growing up that I and my sister where not allowed to do certain things buty brothers were allowed to do so. For example keeping late nights. My brother's will leave the house and come home late at night like 11pm sometimes 12am. When asked were they were coming from, the next thing they say is that they went to see a football match. But imagine me as a lady coming home late?

I remember once I was in school and I had to wait for a friend who was to teach me further mathematics. I had issues with that subject back then. This friend asked me to wait until she was done with her home lessons. I came home by 7pm that day and I got the beaten of my life even though I explained to my parents the reason.

I also remember another time when t was time to register and write jamb exams. My brother was allowed to decide what he wanted to study and fill it up in the form. But when it got to mine, I wasn't. Instead the form was sent to several persons to make choice for me. Even my Dad had a course he wanted me to study.

Well , I would not say I know the reason why I was treated that way but I remember my Dad kept making comments like don't you know you are a woman? Don't come home late,, don't do this and do that. So I presume the reason why men have freedom to make choices than women is probably because women needs to be protected and guided, since the bible refers tol women as weaker vessels so they tend to physical apply it.

Are there areas where you think women have an advantage over men? What might those be?

Oh yes there are areas where it seems women have more advantage. Sometimes in job settings women may have advantage because the owners feel women will be more dedicated to the job bringing in the best.

Whatever a woman puts in heart to do, she gets the best out of it. Some other times the reason why women are advantage is probably because a man is in charge of what she wants. So the man prefers to give it to the woman than some other man looking for the same thing because naturally likes attracts.

What role do family responsibilities play in the lives of men and women? Is one gender expected to do more?

Family is the basis of any society. If a man or a woman will get it right in life , it first begins in their family. This is family is important.

Family responsibilities play important roles in the lives of men and women. I would also like to use my family again as case study.

My parents believed there were roles left for a man and for a woman. So the girls in my house were given the responsibility of washing and cooking with cleaning while the men were to fetch water when there is no water and sweeping of the surroundings.

Today my brothers especially my elder brother doesn't know how to cook any thing because he never did while growing up.

I noticed the women in my house did more job than the men. They were practically served by the women. And it made them believe that, all that was a woman's job.

I do not think it is ok for one gender to do more than the other, I think they should be given responsibilities based on their level of strength. One gender given more responsibility makes the m feel less important in the family or less loved.

I had a friend who always thought her father wasn't her biological father because of the way she was treated at home.

In conclusion, who do you think personally to have an easier life and why?

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Men have an easier life than the women. Women go through as lot of pains in life and responsibilities of been a mother and wife.

The men do not go through as much pains as the women. The women are left to multitask even from childhood and are told to keep submitting to the man.

The women leave their fathers name and family to join to a man's family and picks up his name as hers for life.

I would like to invite some friends to tell me what they think about this topic

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