The Law Of Comparative Advantage - 950 Words

Slow Your Role: Gender Roles No Longer Needed In the past, there has been a need for men and women to take on complementary roles for relationships and survival. As the law of comparative advantage implies, women have an inherent advantage to becoming the caregiver in a family—the caregiver for the children they have given birth to, therefore leaving it up to the other partner, the man, to become the protector and provider. Regardless of these traditional roles in history, there is no necessity for gender roles in today’s society. The technology and available resources for every human currently whatever their gender may be are equal by nature, until gender roles impose barriers created by society that may prevent one from reaching their†¦show more content†¦Men also do not need to train their whole lives in order to save this damsel in distresses life. Beyond that fantasy, in order to sustain lives in reality, there has obviously always been a need for certain roles—one person to raise and take care of children, and one to go out and bring back provisions so life can continue here on Earth. In the past, it was expected to be the woman who stays home with the child after having grown and carried it in uterus for nine months and then feeding it at breast; therefore it was left up to the male who played a short role in creation of the child to go out and provide for them. Although this tradition falls apart when there are so many other options available. Today procreation does not rely solely on a relationship between a man and a women. There are surrogate mothers who eliminate that idea of comparative advantage, because with an outside party growing the child then all parents have equal opportunity to become close to it—also it works the same way with adoption. Furthermore, there are also formulas to replace breast milk if needed, and science today also shows that men to have the capability to produce breast milk. In the future, there may even be ways to produce children in artificial wombs. Women are not forced to be the caregivers anymore, and men the providers, so it should not be expected of