Essay - Women Have Harder Lives Than Men Women Have Often Been...

Women Have Harder Lives Than Men

Women have often been called the weaker sex or the soft *****, but in reality, ********** lives are much harder than men's lives. Let us start with the obvious: pregnancy. No woman has ever claimed that pregnancy is fun, yet it is a cross that many women bear and ***** willingly. In less enlightened times, women's only job was to bear children - and as ***** as possible. Today, women maintain c*****ers and outside interests and hobbies, but still bear *****. Companies provide maternity leave but generally *****y only provide six weeks: it boggles the mind that society believes that women can take six weeks only and somehow prepare for labor, give birth and then recover. Yet, we expect th***** of women, ***** career-oriented women accept *****e burden and thrive.

Then of course, there is the work associated with raising ***** child. Granted, fathers ***** a huge sh*****re in the workload of ***** a child, but in a nuclear family, generally the ***** is more involved. Perhaps it ***** because ***** the biological connection ***** mother feels w*****h her child - after all she gave birth to the child and ***** father did not - or perhaps it is because society usually assigns the woman a m*****e prev*****lent role in rais*****g the child, but the ***** usually works ***** during the childhood.

The ***** is generally assigned the role of bread-winner by society but ***** is changing faster than perceptions about a woman's greater responsibil*****y ***** the children are changing. Women are increasingly earning salaries that ***** equal to if ***** greater than their husb*****s' salaries. Naturally, they are working harder for those higher ***** too: salaries don't increase with impunity. Rather, salary increases are always commensurate ***** higher workloads. And women are meeting these higher workloads ********** giving ***** to and raising multiple children, too.

But even aside from the work associated with children, ***** lives are more d*****ficult. They have to endure much more sexual harassment ***** sexual assault than men have to *****. These obstacles complicate *****'s professional and personal lives in ways ***** are often obvious. But ***** also make women's ***** harder in intangible *****: Women need to be ***** aw***** of the risks of sexual assault ***** men do, ***** this ***** ***** stress load.

***** ***** *****, women are entering c*****ers that ***** a decade ago ********** strictly male. But women are often accorded less respect on the job and lower pay, *****. If ***** are efficient and productive workers, they may climb the corporate ladder quickly, ***** then they are viewed as bossy or insolent. Where men are considered ambitious f***** ***** hard and well, women may be considered pushy ***** may be resented by the ***** power structure.

Women do enjoy the advantage over men in some fields - teaching, secretarial, publishing - but generally these ***** the professions which pay *****. Single mothers in such typically female ***** will ***** a difficult time support*****g