In many countries today, both men and women need to work full time. Therefore, some people think men and women should share household task equally (e.g. cleaning and looking after children). To what extent do you agree or disagree?

t is often argued that duties for

housework

are equally distributed to parents as most households are dual-income these days,

such

as child care, and scratch cooking. In my perspective, it seems convincing since gender equality plays a crucial role among family members.

To begin

with those in opposition to a fair distribution of

household

task claim that family roles are determined

according to

their sexual status.

Firstly

, many oriental countries have a biased society where men are in dominant positions compared to women. These patriarchal characteristics require especially mothers as responsible for doing most

housework

, no matter how hard they support their family financially as a breadwinner. Whilst fathers should concern about matters outside of the families.

Moreover

, these currents can be attributed towards a rampant machoism-oriented society for a long historical time and

thus

the public is fixed on

such

stereotypes of males and females’ roles in each

household

.

On the other hand

, there are some persuasive reasons to support why all given

household

tasks should be handled by both parents. First of all, we need to rewind back to the historical moments, there was severer discrimination against female members and a great number of feminists fought for the right of their gender equality.

Thus

,

this

revolution

finally

resulted in legislation of sexual discrimination laws.

In addition

, both men and women contribute their financial burden to their families and they are exhausted after finishing working.

In other words

, they both are deserved to take a rest at home so that

housework

including cleaning, and child-minding should be shared fairly between them. In conclusion,

housework

should fairly be measured for men and women as they work full time. Hanse, equal distribution of

household

duties must take into consideration at a national level.