I don't really believe that anything, even men and women, can ever truly be equal. One side of things will always have an advantage to some degree over the other, and I don't think it will always be men with that advantage... but I think that one side will always have just that little bit more of whatever (be it power, freedom, money, strength...) than the other side.

Seeing as how in the past there have been several examples of women leaders and such, I think that things just go back and foreth between the sexes, so it probably all evens out in the wash so to speak, but at any given time, I think that either the men or the women will have more than their counterparts. Especially in certain parts of the world.

That's not to say that all men have more now than all women. There are plenty of women right now with a higher standing than plenty of men. But I'm thinking that men are somewhat in the lead overall because (here at least) a man will earn more money from doing the same job as a woman in certain companies (but this is changing) and many of the people in power here are men (more than half anyway). Though the country is still led by our Queen overall (mind you, most of the control still falls on the Prime Minister, who is a man). So yea, it's like you win some and you lose some...

But that's only in certain countries such as Canada where things have evened out pretty well. There are many countries where even the fundamental rights of a person a different depending on whether you are male or female.

But I think the only time that anything is truly equal with something else, is for that split second while the two powers are switching places. Any other time, I'd say there's always an advantage to the one side, no matter how large or small that advantage may happen to be. Just my opinion though, but yea, a lot of it all depends on the environment too, because even if something were to be equal in one part of the world, it's not necessarily going to be the same everywhere else...

As far as I'm concerned, both genders start off equal. One may be better than the other doing specific tasks, job mindset and so forth, but as one other poster has said already, they are working towards job-specific goals at the end of the day.

But as far as competitiveness goes, have to agree that both genders are always bound to try to out-do one another, but also both genders should receive the same rights, same with races etc.

To me they are equal.

They Are so very equal compared to other countrys.

Biologically woman will never be equal to men. Not because of the genitiles, but because of the difference in brains. Early research has shown that there is 1 spot in the human brains that differ in man and woman.

Mentally they will be equal. I'd say that they're almost the same. A simple example is that woman now can be the only one in the family that earn money.

As an Anarcho-Communist I must believe all should be equal in any way possible. However the reason Capitalism has succeeded so well is because it isn't against human nature, just logic. For this reason I can safely say that Men and Women will never be equal becase one will try to dominate the other through religion, through sexism, through descrimination, et cetera.

This post has been edited by Tetraca: Jun 27 2007, 05:07 PM

Woman will never be equal to men. Its a mindset that society has taken that men are more dominant. Genders will always be biased and favor their own genders. Men have ego's and women have hearts. its always been like that.

Well I know that some people may say that we will be equal but that is sort of bullcrap know I am not sexist,racist, or anything around that area like prejudice. But we wil never ever be equal it is just that woman and men are just way to different to ever be equal. Here is a example I think someone said that we are equal in the physical catagory? It is a fact, (Thats right a Fact) That naturally mens mucsle structure grows more then woman's averagely. I could go on for days and days but think that I have proven my point.
That we will not be equal in every way. I believe that we can be equal in a few ways like paying and getting jobs.

Nops, i dont think men, and women can be equal, becaz the nature of women have very soft, women always have softheart, so they can't do hard jobs.

Excuze me? Oh no you didn't! As a matter of fact Mr. Male Chauvinist, we can handle hard jobs. More and more women are joining the military AND FIGHTING ON THE FRONT LINES!!!