Why We Should Return to Traditional Gender Roles

 

This guest post is courtesy of Jarod Russo, Regent Law Family Law student:

If a person went back three hundred years ago and asked one of the American settlers, or any person during that time, what gender roles were, they would probably have no idea what you were talking about. I say that because back then, it was so rooted in society that men work outside the home, and women work in the home. I am in no way advocating that women should not be allowed to work, but I am advocating that, for the most part, we should encourage women to choose to work inside the home of they want to do so. There are plenty of great women in government, law, medicine, and so on. This article is not meant to disparage them in any way; it explains the rule, not the exception. The purpose of this post is to help women realize what most of them are called to do, and that is to be wives and mothers.

There is a viral trend of women on TikTok filming themselves in tears because they find the 9-5 job boring, dull, depressing, and hopeless. There is a reason for that, and that reason is that women generally find much more fulfillment from being mothers and wives. It is fundamentally rooted in nature that women have a gift for nurturing, just like it is fundamentally rooted in nature that men are supposed to be providers. The modern feminist movement vehemently advocates for women to abandon marriage and the family, to pursue a career only, and basically die alone. They claim that their husbands ‘oppress them,’ but they don’t want you to notice that their boss is often a man. The ‘oppression’ they get from a boss is far more real than that of a loving husband.

 

Depression and anxiety rates in both women and men are skyrocketing, and it’s not a mystery why. Men feel despair because they feel that everyone hates them for their ‘male privilege,' and women feel despair because they feel they can’t find a man who supports their career goals. This is why we should return to traditional gender roles for most people. Society needs to encourage men to work, not sit around all week playing video games. And, society needs to encourage women to pursue men who have aspirations for working outside the home, not the other way around. This doesn’t mean every man has to earn a big salary, but it does mean men should work, barring some extreme circumstance like illness or injury. Doing this would greatly strengthen the nuclear family, and both men and women would feel much more fulfilled by doing what God called men and women to do from the beginning.