Introduction
Gender inequality has been prevalent for a long time and still continues to be upheld in our society today. Women have been depicted to be weaker than men thus creating a belief that women are not equal to men. This is exhibited in the manner roles are delegated based on gender. In our society today, women are given less involving and easy roles while men are given difficult roles (Kleven, Landais, & Søgaard, 2018). At work, top job positions are reserved only for men. However, these gender inequality and stereotypes need to be reviewed. Some people do believe that women and men are equal therefore, no one is stronger than the other. Some have suggested that science can address this issue. For instance, they suggest that the thresholds of pain, as well as the biological differences between men and women, have the potential of showing whether the stereotypes existing in our society about weakness are true or just socially constructed fallacies. Essentially, the tendency of society to brand women as being weak originates from various factors. For instance, the women’s bigger desire for building a consensus subjecting them to criticism from their male counterparts is one of the factors (Jewkes, Flood, & Lang, 2015). Actually, the socially constructed stereotype that women are weak has been built over time as physical aspects come into play. This paper will argue on whether women are weaker than men.
Argument for
Women more are vulnerable to pain
Women are naturally weaker than men. Men are stronger in enduring any kind of pain than women. In work that requires more effort and tend to be weary and tiresome, women tend to feel the pain and tiresome quite early than men. With regards to pain threshold, it is determined that women are more vulnerable. Since pain is significantly influenced by endorphins including other chemicals within the body, it is certain that women are most likely to have more variability with regards to how the severely experience the pain (Assari & Lankarani, 2015). For example, to demonstrate the variance of pain between men and women, whenever healthy men and women are exposed heat as well as other sorts of pain tests, it is found that women always tend to report first they feel discomfort. Meaning that women tend to feel pain early before men when doing a similar task or having the same experience. This is a clear indication that women are weaker than men, as the experience suggests that are more vulnerable to pain as compared to men. Nonetheless, the hormonal aspects affecting the pain perception as well as the output of pain-killing endorphins tend to be significantly variable within female bodies because of menstruation (Assari & Lankarani, 2015). In this regard, the bodies of women are created to become more vulnerable to pain so as to sustain vital reproductive organs as well as the reproductive processes. Therefore, this supports that women are biologically designed to be weaker than men.
Men have the capacity to think in three dimension
Another aspect that support than women is weaker than men is that the fact determined that men pose better spatial awareness than women. This is to mean that men have a greater capacity of thinking of objects in three dimensions. Practically, when men are given a difficult task to do, due to their ability to think in three dimension, men are able to think in three dimension and be able to find a way of handling the work efficiently and also finish the work in time (Zunzunegui et al., 2015). They tend to have the ability to be an open-minded and creative thinking that enables them to handle any time of work regardless of how difficult the work can be. They always find a way. Women, on the other hand, lack the ability to think an object in three dimensions. This inability makes women to find a task hard to accomplish and may be defeated to carry on with the work at all or end up finishing the work quite late. Women tend to be overwhelmed with complex tasks making them weaker than men who can handle the same task easily and in time.
Men have a better ability to tolerate sleep deprivation
Men also have a better ability to tolerate sleep deprivation. In essence, men are better in managing a lack of sleep as compare to women. Men’s bodies are stronger and have the capacity of managing lack of sleep. This is evident by how men can manage to take short sleep and work for longer hours than women. This is actually proven by scientists stating that women and children require a sleep of a minimum of 8 hours while men need sleep of a minimum of 5 hours a day (Jayachandran, 2015). These are the sleeping hours that have been determined to be healthy to every respective individual. Based on the sleeping hours implied by scientists, one can tell that men have the ability to sleep for fewer hours than women which is still healthy. This shows that men’s bodies are naturally designed to be strong such that it can endure sleep deprivation. Therefore, women’s inability to tolerate sleep deprivation makes them weaker than men who can tolerate it with ease.
Argument against
Women have to deal with more physical pain
Alternatively, women are not weaker than men. It is essential to have an understanding that women are even stronger because they have to deal with more physical pain as a whole than men. Despite being biologically designed to be vulnerable to pain, women have to give it all and deal with the pain. Essentially, women have a tendency of experiencing more chronic pain often and more severely as compared to men due to their biologically designed bodies. It has been found that hormones, brain structure, biological and genetic factors have a significant contribution to chronic pain among women who normally do not get diagnosed (Jayachandran, 2015). Due to the pervasive nature of women’s pain, it is quite simple for the general society to construct an image of women being weak and stereotyping them. Nevertheless, since they have to go through more pain, we tend to ignore the fact that this is what essentially makes women stronger and not weaker. Actually, in regards to pain, women are not weaker than men, the fact is that they simply have to deal more with it.
Women have a better immune system and lifespan
Women are found to have better immune system thus being healthy with fewer health complications, minimal risk for contracting blood diseases as well as a minimal propensity towards risk-taking. Therefore, women have a longer lifespan than men. It is also determined that at young ages as well as all through the lifespan, men are more vulnerable to developing disorders, commit suicide as well as dying violently as compared to women. This implies that women are actually stronger than men (Ceci & Williams, 2015). Given that women have a longer lifespan, this is a vivid indication that women have stronger bodies than men. The vulnerabilities of men to health complications have been documented in various case studies and reinforced by research aimed solely on gender differences. It is also noted that there other poorly and underappreciated vulnerabilities inherent within the genetics and hormonal makeup of men. This creates unfairness to socially construct women as being weak than men without undertaking enough research taking into consideration all vulnerabilities of both men and women based on certain genetic and hormonal makeup (Park et al., 2016). Therefore, it is unjustified to claim that women are weaker than men. Women are simply stereotyped by society. In fact, women are even stronger than men by far.
Conclusion
To sum it all, I believe that women are not weaker than men. Most abilities for women are more equal to those of men while in some instances, women have better abilities than men. Religiously, man and woman were created equally and I tend to believe so. To add on it, abilities differ. In some instances, women have better abilities than men and also in some instances, men have better abilities than women. This makes both to be equal. For instance, women are better in the location of specific items, detecting colours and also have a better immune system than men. Where men are better in acoustic size judgments, spatial awareness, and tolerating sleep deprivation. It is clear that every gender is good at something more than the other. This creates a win-win situation. Also, due to the pervasive nature of women’s pain, it is quite simple for the general society to construct an image of women being weak and stereotyping them. Nevertheless, since they have to go through more pain, we tend to ignore the fact that this is what essentially makes women stronger and not weaker. Actually, in regards to pain, women are not weaker than men, the fact is that they simply have to deal more with it. Therefore, I conclude by saying that women are not weaker than men. Both men and women are equal and there is a need to eradicate the stereotype and gender inequality that is prevalent in society.