英语辩论稿“当代男女是否平等”

Arguments
1.Prejudice against women violates the fundamental principle that all people are created equal.
2.Women should not be treated differently from men since,according to statistics,there is no basic difference between the standards and quality of work performed by men and women who do the same work.
3.This is an unfair world: most of the top position is in society,like company directors,judges,university professors,etc. are occupied by men.
4.This is a male-dominant world.Over centuries men have been training and educating women to consider themselves inferior and to accept their superior position.As a result ,not only men are prejudiced against women,but some women are also prejudiced against themselves because they believe they are really inferior and only fit for household chores.
5. Women should no longer be treated as the inferior sex.They should stand side by side with men and define their role in society,in which they can choose to work outside or stay at home and in which they will have more time to develop their own interests.
6. It is a shame in the modern world to confine women to the home and block their way to the full exploitation of their capacity and potential.
7. Men should take an equal share in housework so as to liberate women from the kitchen.
8. Women should be given an equal chance of education in order to compete with men on an equal footing.
9 It is unreasonable for authorities to refuse to promote able women to important posts just because they have children to bring up.
Counter-arguments
1. Since we all admit that women belong to a different sex ,we shouldn't complain about the different treatment to women .
2. The fact is that most housewives are content to be housewives.They don't feel that housekeeping is something imposed upon them bu men.
3. Women are by nature good at housekeeping since the biological function of a women is first to bring children into the world and then to bring them up.Women shouldn't attibute the exploitation of their biological advantage to men's discrimination against them.
4. The fact is that women have received too much special treatment is society at men's expense.Women should realize that men are in an unfavourable position and are discriminated against.
5. Most of the women are family-oriented by nature.Not to put them in improtant position is just to show consideration for their natural inclination.
6. Actually women today have already got as much freedom as they could possibly want.They enjoy the right to vote; They can go to university; they can compete with men in any professional field on equal terms.It is groudless and unreasonable to raise the issue of unequal treatment of women in social life.