by Letty B

Created on: August 27, 2008

When women call for a right to equality they are relinquishing their right to be different. Women and Men are biologically different, they have different needs and no law will ever make women equal to men as it will always remain the case that women have babies, women are mothers and women will regardless of career path fulfill that role in some capacity if they bear children.

By endeavoring to be 'equal' to men, women are increasing their workload two fold. Working mums don't go to work and return home to read the newspaper and watch the news while their dinner is served to them upon a silver platter. Which is largely still the case for married men.

Working mums comes home, make the dinner, clean the dishes, put on the washing, do the ironing, clean the house, prepare tomorrows lunch and are lucky if they get to sit down before bed time. This dual role is stressful and diminishes the value of each task. Some women are perfectionists and struggle to juggle both roles, being super at them both. Others can afford to hire help or can rely on family/husband support. But for the vast majority of working mums, the load is borne entirely by them.

Depression and break downs are on the increase.

Why do women, want men to treat them as equals when women already perform twice the tasks men do, and work longer hours including the work they do at home.

Working women are in danger of losing their rights to be full time mums which in time affects the children which in time affects society.

One radical view is that while feminism was great for women who wanted to lose their shackles and have a say and develop careers, is that it did also lead to the breakdown of the family unit. Men have slowly become demasculinated as the roles collide and women appear in more and more previously male dominated career roles.

One example is how equality allows women to work in the fire service. If a woman can demonstrate she can perform the job as well as a man and is not in anyway hindering, endangering the public with her presence then of course she deserves as does a man to do that job. However it is often the case that firewomen cannot perform equally to the standard of their male counterparts. They do not have the strength to do the same duties. In these cases there is something very wrong with equality. Equality should not come at the detriment of society and safety.

Women are more equal than men in many areas. Women get widows benefits whereas men do not. Men whose wives die, become full time dads to their children yet are left in poverty due to their lack of 'equal' rights.

If we are going to be equal consider exactly what equal means.

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