Gender perceptions are my pet peeves so I really enjoyed readung your post. The differences between men and women may not be that huge but at this time in our history it is still better to be born a man in many parts of the world.

I think that the gender gap will be gone when a girl or a boy are treated as equal everywhere.

What would be the attitude of Western culture if they found out that women rule in Islamic countries and that all the men were treated as they treat their women. What if old women married boys and kept them prisoners in virtual detention all their lives, beating them when they felt upset and discarding them if they did not give them children.

I think that the world would unite to liberate all these men a little more quickly than what we see now.

I think women are just not as valued as men in our society and obviously in most nations where religion takes precedence over humanitarian laws.