To continue with the gender bias topic...
No doubt its women who bear the brunt, but at the risk of sounding a male chauvinist I think men have their own cross to bear. How? Read on.
1. Even in these so-called liberated times, men are expected to go out and earn the bread and butter. The option of staying at home and looking after the children, while the wife goes out to work, is not open to them. They have this option only if they have the strength to withstand the gossip, the ridicule and the general disapproval. What is wrong in being a house husband when it’s perfectly fine for a woman to be a house wife?
2. If a girl does not take up a career it’s nothing to worry about, but does a man have that option? I have enough girl friends who have no career and perfectly fine staying home and managing the house while their husbands are running around to earn a living. I don’t see anyone looking down on these women.
3. When it comes to marriage parents want their daughter to marry a man who can give her a secure future. ‘A well settled boy’ is a major criterion. It would never occur to them that their daughter should be able to fend for herself.
4. Women have been moving into their husband's houses for centuries and that’s never been an issue. If a girl can shift to her husband’s house why is it demeaning for a boy to shift to his wife’s house?
5. If a boy cries he’s a sissy, if a girl cries, it’s perfectly acceptable and in fact attracts sympathy and comforting from people around. Why? Don’t boys have feelings? Shouldn’t they have the right to express without facing scorn?
6. If a girl plays cricket she is labelled a tomboy but if a boy plays with a doll…heaven forbid! Society is more indulgent on girls acting like tomboys but there is a stigma attached to a boy being effeminate. Why?
7. Society has a tendency to doubt the masculinity of men who design clothes for women, or male make-up artists, or men who follow any profession that breaks away from the regular. Somehow, men who don't hold nine to five jobs with a salary cheque that puts food on the table are not deemed manly enough. But women taking up traditionally male roles are admired and hallowed.

Frankly, I don’t agree with the feminist’s demand of equality or being ‘like men’. We have enough men around, why do we want to turn women into men? It’s high time we accepted that men and women are different. Mind you, different neither means inferior or less in any way. It just means...hmm…different. According to me, the very fact that we ‘want to be like men’ means we consider ourselves less than them. We are not. We are equal, but different. Like say sugar and honey. They’re both sweet, yet they’re different.