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The Gender Gap

rtunity holders but as primary caregivers to children and housekeepers, who do things to comfort them, no need to be in men’s field, politic. If women want to be treated equally as men, they not only claim men ought to share equal opportunities in politic but they also have to share burdens with men at the same time. Instead of complaining the society has given more power to men, they need to make an effort to change small things such as splitting up a bill on a date. In ‘Cheap Men’, Adair Lara shows how women are preoccupied dealing with men paying for expenses by saying that a lot of women make enough money these days, “yet I haven’t seen women knocking over tables in fight for the lunch tab.” The majority of women expect men to behave in certain ways when they are out. They, for instance, assume men are obligated to pay every single check. Lara challenges traditional assumption when she says, “I’d rather buy my own drink.” In addition to expressing their unhappiness feelings of men being cheap, many women also think that men do not know how to behave and treat them. Noticeable gender inequality is a conversational discrimination, which we might have experienced in our everyday lives. If you watch carefully dialogues between a man and a woman, a man more likely tend to interrupt the dialogues than a woman between colleagues in work places as well as between dates. Men are more prone to break the flow of instructors’ lectures by asking unnecessary or unimportant questions if the instructors are women in classes. That is because men consider female instructors have less control over them than male. This conversational discrimination against women should be challenged because if they continue to allow men to do that, men unconsciously fall into narcissism of being superior to them not only physically but also mentally. Gender inequalities such as gender discriminati...

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