英语学习美文Should Men and Women Be Equal.docVIP

Should Men and Women Be Equal? (Words:299 Time: 4 minutes) 在当今社会，无论在政界、商界还是在科技等领域，出现了许多杰出女性，如居里夫人、撒切尔夫人等，让我们一起来了解下文： Should men and women be equal? This is a question much talked about by many people. Some hold the opinion that men are superior to women in many ways. For one thing, many a job men do can hardly be done by women, who are physically not strong enough, and for another, most of the world famous scientists or statesmen are found to be males. Moreover, the whole human society seems to have all along been dominated by men only. Isn’t it evident enough to show that men are a lot stronger than women? Hence, the former should enjoy more rights than the latter. Other people, however, think quite differently on this question. They firmly believe that both men and women are born equal. And women are certainly as talented as men if they are given equal opportunities of education. Isn’t a fact known to us all that women have been working side by side with men in China and elsewhere in the world? Like their men folk, they have been distinguishing themselves not only in research institutions, but in government bodies and other organizations as well. Either the French Nobel Prize winner Margaret Curie or the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher serve as a telling argument—women are by no means inferior to men in many respects. Personally, I’m firmly standing on the side of those women right defenders. Since both men and women are playing an equally important role in all human activities. Why shouldn’t they be on equal footing? And furthermore, from time immemorial, there have been two sex groups, i.e. men and women. Our human society could definitely not have existed or advanced without either of them. Is it any wonder that men and women ought to be equal and enjoy equal rights accordingly(相应地)? Help: superior: greater than sb else.优越 dominate: to control or have a lot of influence over sb.控制、支配 distinguish: to do sth so well that people notice and a