Do you think society places less burden on women and treats them better?

[MonikaTheGreatest]

Yes

No

[nightdrot]

Actually, a funny thing happened on the way to abstract equality between men and women. The lack of equality having its roots in a culture and law that evolved, imperfectly to be sure, to protect women. Thus, what once protected women came to be seen as a burden and an encumbrance and thus the culture has changed and the law with it.

From this two unintended consequences have followed. The current evidence seems to suggest that men - at least at this point in time - are having a harder time than women. Men have higher suicide and incarceration rates. Shorter lifespans. Male drug addiction and alcoholism rates dwarf the incidence of such pathologies in women. More women go to college and high school and college graduation rates among women are higher than men. Women, for the first time, now make up more of the workforce than men. Pay rates, allowing for differentials of age and experience, are about equal.

On the women's side, however, while legal and economic equality have improved for women, their social vulnerability has increased. The rubble that is the MeToo movement being an excellent example. Women were to be believed come what may, but that fell afoul of three centuries of legal principle of innocent until proven guilty.

Women now find themselves in an environment where the are more exposed and vulnerable to the power relationships of the workplace and society more generally. Thus when they seek protection, they are afforded legal equality and protection but they are given no deference in the cultural sense. No longer the "weaker sex," they are no longer protected.

In all this, at least for the time being, men are taking the brunt. This further aggravated by an economy that is no longer as reliant on physical strength and other "masculine virtues." Displaced economically and culturally, the impact on men has been profound and as the culture still seeks to right what it has come to regard as unfairness to women, there is little relief and even less sympathy for men.

The answer to the question, then, is that in the legal sense, women are treated more equally and have greater economic opportunities than has been the historical norm. However, culturally, they find themselves in an environment that is more pitiless and far less deferential.

Women then are, in that sense, left to themselves and on their own. Put somewhat archaically, as Edmund Burke characterized it in the face of a similar cultural wave almost four centuries ago, "But the age of chivalry is dead. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."

[IAMNathanael]

I think in different ways both men and women each have their own advantages/disadvantages. It equals out in the end.

[VanityFair748]

In my country no.
Even some of younger generation still thinks that woman is less human than man.

[Bhavin2184]

Society puts equal burden on both gender, one human being choice/action makes the burden more or worst

[Adam1978]

Society does not need to, they do it to themselves.

[chriscdi]

not really, women get trashed for a lot of shit too lol but they might get away with some stuff only cause they got a pussy

[Anonymous]

Oh yes. I think women get treated so much better than men in general

[lauraa9963]

I think its the other way around

[Joker_]

Yeah