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Should women be treated the same as men?

Arguments

1. Prejudice against women violates the fundamental principle that all people are created equal.

2. Women should not be treated differently from men since, according to statistics, there is no basic difference between the standards and quality of work performed by men and women who do the same work.
3. This is an unfair world: most of the top positions in society, like company directors, judges, university professors, etc. are occupied by men.
4. This is a male-dominant world. Over centuries men have been training and educating women to consider themselves inferior~ and to accept their inferior position. As a result, not only men are prejudiced against women, but some women are also prejudiced against themselves because they believe they are really inferior and only fit for household chores.
5. Women should no longer be treated as the inferior sex. They should stand side by side with men and define their role in society, in which they can choose to work outside or stay at home and in which they will have more time to develop their own interests.
6. It is a shame in the modern world to confine women to the home and block their way to the full exploitation of their capacity and potential.
7. Women should be given an equal chance of education in order to compete with men on an equal footing.
8. Men should take an equal share in housework so as to liberate women from the kitchen.
9. It is unreasonable for authorities to refuse to promote able women to important posts just because they have children to bring up.

Counter-arguments

1. Since we all admit that women belong to a different sex, we shouldn't complain about the different treatment to women.
2. Women are by nature good at housekeeping since the biological~ function of a woman is first to bring children into the world and then to bring them up. Women shouldn't attribute the exploitation of their biological advantage to men's discrimination against them.
3. If staying at home taking care of household chores is a sort of discrimination against women, do women aGREe to work outside while their husbands do the housework at home?
4. Actually women today have already got as much freedom as they could possibly want. They enjoy the right to vote; they can go to university; they can compete with men in any professional field on equal terms. It is groundless and unreasonable to raise the issue of unequal treament of women in social life.
5. It has been proved that women are not good at business management, political administration, etc. That is why women don't hold many important posts in social and economic life.
6. Most women are family-oriented by nature. Not to put them in important positions is just to show consideration for their natural inclination.
7. Women should not attribute their inferior social status to unequal treatment by men. They have to look at their own incompetence and inability for an answer.
8. The fact is that women have received too much special treatment in society at men's expense. Women should realize that men are in an unfavourable position and are discriminated~ against.
9. Women shouldn't complain about their so-called "double burden" (work and household chores) because men have always asked them to take only one of the responsibilities, i.e. taking care of the family. It is women themselves who choose to take up both.