If Women Were More Like Men
If Women Were More Like Men
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“Sugar and Spice and all things nice… that’s what little girls are made of”
“Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog’s tails… that’s what little boys are made of”[/i:ecb2bec407]
In our society men and women both play very important parts. Even if it may be tempting to believe that girls and boys are the same for a short while after their birth this is not the case. From their first moments girls and boys are raised differently. To put it simply: girls get the dolls and boys the cars. The differences become more apparent the older the children get, especially if they have been brought up according to traditional values. Men and women very often have a completely different attitude in life. Men are said to be less emotional, but more determined, whereas women play the more caring, but also more dependent role in our society. But what would our world be like if women were more like men?
Since the beginning of mankind, men have been hunters and women the ones who stay at home, taking care of the children. Even though our society is undergoing tremendous changes, men still hold the top-positions in jobs such as management, marketing, finance or politics and get paid around 1/3 more than women on average. Apart from the traditional reasons for men being more successful there is also the reason that men do everything possible to achieve their goals. Women are far less ruthless and much more sensitive to the feelings of others, so they seem weaker and less determined. Women very often work as teachers, nurses and social-workers, jobs which involve care and emotions and are directly concerned with people, but very often badly paid. If women were more like men they would also try and get the best-paid jobs, without thinking of anyone they may be harming on the path to achieving their goal. There is nothing wrong with being determined and career orientated but it is also important to be sensitive towards other people’s feelings. As most leading politicians are men, men are the ones who start wars. Women would probably have a completely different approach towards conflicts. They would try to deal with problems, by trying to get to the bottom of them instead of just solving current dilemmas. Women would almost certainly take more notice of the civilians being harmed, whilst men block...