As long as the United States is a patriarchal society, women will not be truly equal

Compromise? Here is a compromise... -I will concede to men and women being equal in all intellectual capacity -I will concede that their physical differences do not directly prohibit them from most jobs (some such as wet nurse only for women, front line soldier only for men (although, I have seen some pretty beefy women as pipe fitters at the shipyard) -I will (read: I've already) conceded women should be allowed to vote, own property and hold political office That's a lot of things a normal "incurably biased" (read: bigot/chauvinist) male wouldn't concede. I neglected most of my opponents arguments from R4 because they didn't make a difference to the solution. ALL of those concessions I just gave do not make a slim of a difference to the ultimate thing I was trying to prove either. That women should maintain (or, for some, go back to) their gender role as home maker and care giver. And if they are adherent to their gender role, that makes our society NOT EQUAL between the genders. On a side note, if you admit that a single-income family is better... and yes.. you should ALWAYS do what is better (in debates anyway)... is that women then get pigeon-holed to be mothers and wives, and that directly addresses many of the other categories. Why waste a formal education? Why get job training that you're not going to use? Why spend all that money and time for something that ultimately won't make a lick of a difference? Although they are not getting formal education, they can still educate themselves with books, the Internet, newspapers, just talking to people and learning. That's how most of the education comes anyway.... not from getting a piece of paper from an institute. I'm not arguing CON intelligent female populace, I'm arguing CON wasting a formally educated populace that will not use their education professionally. However, although I believe it concludes from those to not educate men and women the same, that is not required for this debate, either. For this debate, I was to prove that men and women, for the betterment of society, the family and the individual, should adhere to their gender roles. If it is so that women should be mother's and wives for a period of time after child birth (my opponent actually proved that) then it is so they should maintain that role throughout their family-life (as they should be in single-income families) It is better for society because we have not wasted formal education and money and time. You'll have a society where children are raised by their mothers and more likely to be proper citizens. It is better for the family because children will be raised properly, in addition to the house being properly cared for And it is better for the individual womans because they will no longer be confused by their role in society, they know what is expected of them instead of turning them side to side between being a professional or a mother, and they won't be in debt from their student loans for an education they won't use. These things are sufficient to say that women should adhere to their gender role.. Q.E.D. . . I would like to thank my opponent for a gregarious debate... may our future debates be just as fruitful. I do not happen to think much of the past was that bad... but I do hope the future is brighter. One in which we can stop fooling ourselves into believing things that we want to be true. One in which we can truly understand the way society works and can figure out how to make it easier for everyone to live happy lives. One in which people look for progress of humanity and stop looking so short term. One day, we will find answers; children will be raised by the state or they will be raised by their stay-at-home-mothers. Which will be decided, only time will tell.