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DEBATE: Which is more complicated gender: men or women


Being a woman is absolutely harder. In a developing country, this is pretty obvious. Women typically lack freedom in many respects, to the point of being blamed for being raped.
But, even in a developed country, there are many disadvantages to being female:

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