Why are men important to have in society?

Question

We always hear about the worth of womens' contributions to society. We hear about how important women are. In what ways are men important to the well being and progression of society?

To those that question my maturity, this question is specifically worded to elicit responses.

Answer 1

When it comes to society's recognition of women's social contributions, the expression "actions speak louder than words" is revealing. With words, we are sometimes told about women's contributions. However, politics and the economy tell us that men's contributions are more important than women's contributions. Society tells us that men are more important than women by treating men and women in ways that place women at a comparative disadvantage by means of socialization, education, work, and political representation.

First, society through its various institutions (family, media, school, economy, politics) socializes girls and women in ways that place girls and women at an economic and political disadvantage compared to boys and men. Women are socialized to be more interested in low paying jobs than men. For example, women are more likely to be interested in clerical/secreterial work, nursing and social work than men. By contrast, men are more likely to be interested in obtaining education and jobs as engineers, scientists, and medical doctors, that is, higher paying jobs.

Second, society pays men more for their work than women, even for the same type of jobs. Third, society permits men to dominate politics.

This differential treatment is unjustified because there is no reason to believe that one sex is more (or less) favourably capable of contributing to society than the other.

Terribly, with its practices, society recognizes men's contributions more than women's contributions. By asking this question, you are continuing along this tendency to emphasize the importance of men's contributions.

Answer 2

Men are the traditional breadwinners. They go outside to earn money and bring bread home for family while the women stay at home to look after kids and serve the husband. This is the traditional way of men and women. Now is different.

The ability to contribute to society has many aspect. One of each is economically. Since now both men and women go outside to work. Both gender are important to society and ensure the economical progress of the country.

To me both are equal in today's world. Biological, without a sperm or egg, the next generation cannot be produced. The society will suffer aging population and the country will decline.

The way men and women do things are also different. Men tends to do things more straight forward, direct and rush. Women is the opposition.

In this world, there is a need for balance. Both men and women counteract each other. Without one party, the society will soon fall apart.

Answer 3

Well I'm guessing that you are a young man because your question is kind of surprising. It has only been in the last 30yrs or so that women have been able to compete with men on a somewhat level playing field and win. It started with the women's movement in the 60's to 70's and today women are still only getting paid around 80% of what men are paid for the same job.
But I won't pursue that issue right now since that is not your question.
Men are important to society because they make important contributions to business, poltitics, education, etc., all of the same things that all members of society, whether they are men or women, make. I am a firm believer in equaltiy of the sexes. I am a feminist but I like to believe that I am more of a humanist. I believe that men should be respected and valued just as I believe that women should be. All people should be valued for whatever contributions that they can make to society and I believe that society needs the variety of humanity to survive and to thrive. Everyone has the capability to make society better. Men have generally been in control of society and everything else throughout the ages ,and society and civilization has grown and evolved and thrived ,so men are vital to the success of any civilization. Women have generally been in control of the home and raising of children. Since ancient times, men were the hunters and gatherers and supported and protected their homes and families. Women were the nurturers and homemakers. Each needed the other for their community to thrive. It was a relationship that needed each other for the survival and growth of their society. Without each other, society would die out and and disappear. Mother Nature or God, if you like that better, made it so it was a symbiotic relationship.
Men and women need each other to survive but it has taken a very long time to start smudging the lines of what each sex is supposed to do and what they are capable of doing. The roles are starting to finally become more flexible, allowing each sex to move out of what was perceived as their assigned roles in society. Someday there will be a blindfold for society so that it doesn't judge the potential abilities of people by their sex or color or ethnicity or religion.
But, yes, men are very important for the growth and success of society because some men who have dared to dream and act on their dreams have gotten us into space, improved technology, improved health care, invented things that make life easier, and generally kept society continually growing and thriving.

Answer 4

As around half the population is male, I don't understand the question. Is what you saying is that there is more emphasis (media?) on women's contributions than mens?
Perhaps this is just a redress of all those years where a woman's contribution was only valid in terms of what the males in her life did? How many times did we expect the wife of a political figure to be nothing more than the feminine figure by his side. Woe betide the woman who worked while her husband campaigned. Good on you, Jannet Howard.
And shocking is the rich, successful, woman who should choose to be single - what's wrong with her? Talking about you, Oprah.
Are men important? Do they contribute? What are they worth? They are the other half of who we are, their contributions and their opinions just as valid. And truly, if you checked how much press there was, still more would be male oriented, than female.

Answer 5

If women's contributions are often heard, it's because many women felt that their contributions and rights are underestimated. It is their rights to get their voices be heard and acted upon.

That is not to say that men do not have a lot of contributions in the society. In fact men do have a lot of contributions to society. Men are leaders. Being leaders means to guide and serve the needs both in small scale such as in the family and in large scale such as in the society.

Our advanced civilization today is not only the works of women but also because of men that manage to shape the world with their works, innovations, visions, and ideas for humans brighter future.

This can be easily seen by the facts that world great innovators and leaders are men who are famous not because they are men but because of their important contributions to the well-being of the society.

Answer 6

I think both are important but the reasons why they are important because when the women in the society becomes weak and defensless the men could catch them and vice versa. They're needed in parenting because there can never be a family if there's no mom or dad coz being a single parent is hard so they have someone to help them.

Answer 7

In every points like the women do, both men and women are important in the society, equally. I can not say that men are better than women or women are better than men. They both are equal in playing the important role in the society. Yes! Of course men are physically strong but not forgoten that men also mentally high and emotionally good. I'm not saying that women are physically weak or so on. They are also as strong as men do. It just that its a common people view that men are physically strong by just looking their build up muscle body. They are always wrong by judging a book by its cover. Undeniedly, women also strong in physically fit even their body is not as "big" as men do. Don't get wrong of this. And don't think that I'm on the women side or men side in this topic. I even get confuse by this question.

Answer 8

Men are important because we like you!
Seriously, everyone is important. Men and women are supposed to be partners in everything not just procreation. It's just that people are greedy. A long time ago men got power hungry and greedy. They decided that the best way to ensure that they maintained their power was to subjugate women and they did. After a few thousand years of this, women got tired of it and decided to tip the scales the other way. I know you hear a lot of male bashing these days, but the simple fact is that everyone is equally important and equally capable and equally responsible. Male and female alike regardless of race, religion, etc. we are all on this little spaceship called Earth together and we sink or swim together!

Answer 9

Progression of society would be, procreation.

Well being of society would - It's the man who is primarily the financial provider of society. This enables a woman to stay @ home and raise the children in a proper manner. If both parents are working, the child would be brought up by a stranger.

I'm not saying a woman cannot be financially independent, just that when the children come, it would be better for the child, if he/she's brought up by a full time parent rather than a part time part.

Answer 10

Women and society are not the issues for you, rather, your lack of self esteem, who you are and your own sense of self worth.

Didn't GOD create both male and female?
Can the females come to life without males?
Can males come to life without females?

The only way either are going to get here is for the male to put his penis into the female and provide the male cells that MUST interact with the female ovum. In other words, it takes both!

The idea that you should question the importance of either calls into question your level of maturity.

The female is just as incomplete, without the male as the male is without the female.

The reason that YOU are paying attention to what is being said about the female is because the male has, for the most part, tried to keep the female in the back ground.

Not letting her vote, many places refusing to allow her to go to school, drive, go out of the house alone, claiming the right to kill the female if the male perceives an insult from her, (this still happens today).

If you/other males, were not so self centered, you would welcome the news of the females accomplishments. After all, the male has been blasting the news of his accomplishments every since he found out that he has a mouth.

Answer 11

We hear a lot about women's contributions to society for a reason - it used to be the other way around.
The feminist movement came about because (among other reasons) history, commerce, economics and politics seemed to be overwhelmingly dominated by males and male achievement. Even in the Arts, male achievement seemed to be more valuable.
So, for a number of years, this flaw needed to be redressed. The pendulum started to swing the other way.There were times when some thought it had swung too far the other way, and the achievements of women were getting more attention than those of males.

Naturally, the achievements of both are vital - look at it carefully and you will find that society would completely seize up without males, and the same is true for females.

You seem to have observed a lot about what females do for society - child-rearing, homecrafts, artisan manufacturing, maintaining cultures... all that stuff. The traditionally 'female' roles of nursing, teaching and so forth are well known, and well disputed.

Men contribute in a more visible way - the male bastions of commerce and industry, not to mention finance, medicine and so on - but these days women participate in all these areas with great success. This seems to indicate that not only can women sustain society, but they can also do traditionally male roles.

Does this mean that women can do anything and men can only do male roles? Or does it mean that we can do without males altogether? Not if you study it carefully - there are more primary school teachers and nurses that are male than ever before. Babysitting and check-out jobs are taken by males too.

Males are necessary not only because they are useful for reproduction - we need them because balance in society is provided by them, they think differently and have different priorities, talents and abilities, which we cannot afford to lose.

Men also have faults, but women do too, so that is balanced out as well. We can't just have a world without female faults or male faults.

What this has shown is that women are great at multi-tasking, and that multi-tasking takes a lot out of a man at times. Women are better at doing a host of things, and managing and organising a number of things in one day. They juggle well, in general.

But men seem to be better at focussing on things to the total exclusion of anything else, and this is valuable in some branches of business and learning. Complete dedication and focus is not always possible for women who have families to run as well as careers. men are great strategists, in general.

The losers in all this are children: we are still in the phase when we have to figure out who is going to look after the children... not just mind them while all this is going on, but really look after their best welfare and educate them.

Schools and daycare have been shown not to be enough - some families seem these days to have two dads! One of them is female, but they both go out to work all day and make heaps of money and are very focussed and dedicated to their jobs. The children are brought up by remote control, by carers who neither share their culture necessarily, or their parents' level of education, or their parents morals or behaviour. So children grow up taking on the norms of their carers (who naturally care a bit less for them emotionally) rather than their parents, and the cracks are starting to show.

Children are being brought up sometimes as neuter beings - politically correct toys, speech and manners for everyone! Some think this erodes what it means to be a boy or a girl, and we are losing traditionally fostered ways of being a family, losing handcrafts, homemaking talents, culture and traditional things like nursery rhymes and folklore, which cannot be faked or replaced.

So we find that society is an organic thing that values one thing above another for a time, and then the pendulum swings back. Men seem to appear devalued in things like advertising and fiction (films and books) but that is just a phase, because the whole world feels that was done to women for such a long time.

Hope this helps