Chan claims that contraception is one of the reasons that has led to the gender revolution. I agree with his statement. He is infering that before the widely spread use of contraception, women cannot limit their number of children and spends all their time taking care of them. He is implying that a women's whole life revolves around taking take of their child, and now due to contraception, this role of women have been is neglected with more and more women having more freedom to work. This is somewhat ture in Singapore where a large majority of women prefers working to having a child, with our infertility rates hitting 1.1. However, besides the fact that stay at home dads are becoming more common, with 66.3million alone in the US, "We are still stuck in the mindset of our grandparents". Even in Singapore, law on parenting leave where women gets four months of leave while guys none, reinforces the fact that it is the women who bears responsibilty for their child. The ability to have no child frees women of the responsibilty and are able to work, which is also made possible by another of the author's claim which he states that technology replaces manual labour, thus allowing more women to take up different types of jobs. When women works, many of them could be the sole breadwinner or the one that earns the most in the family, something that has almost never been heard of in the past, before contraception becomes widely spread. Therefore, contraception is one of the many reasons of gender revolution as they allow women to break free from steorotypes that they must be housewives.

Chan claims that contraception has allowed women to limit their families and enter the working world. Here, I agree with him to a large extent. From the past tradition, women are 'supposed' to stay at home, manage household chores, give birth and take care of children. Women had no time to enter the workforce as they were too busy being mothers. Now that birth-control techniques are understood worldwide, women learn to make use of them to have control over the number of children they are willing to give birth to. With this freedom, at any point of time, should they decide not to have children, they would then have spare time for work for another source of income, and thus entering the world of work. In Singapore, from 2002 to 2005, there was an estimated 74% of married women who used contraception. To add, both men and women cited economic pressure as their reason for the use of contraception. There is high cost of living in Singapore. As such, both parents would have to work to ensure a stable flow of income for the family. Thus they use birth-control as they have no time to take care of children. Hence, birth-control has allowed women to decide the size of their families and finally, step into the workforce.

Chan claims that gender revolution is more rapid than the scientific one but it goes largely unrecognised and unacknowleged. He is trying to imply that scientific information on gender revolution is inaccurate and many people may be aware of the rapidness of gender revolution based on these information, but it may not reflect the true rapidness of gender revolution. This also means that the adverse effect of gender revolution might be more devastating than expected, and the soltions to alleviate this may be outdated. I agree with him. Gender revolution has been evolving and it is definitely impossible or extremely difficult to measure its rapidness scientifically. A national survey showed that even though majority of men and women agreed they should have equal work opportunities, many of these majority still feel that it would be better if one parent could instead stay home and take care of the house and children. This leads to an increasing number of male home-maker. However, traditional values in Asia often do not agree with this situation, since values state that a women must stay at home instead. Hence, it is neccessary for gender education to be put in place, to minimise conflict brought about by gender revolution. Furthermore, the current sex education put in place needs to be supplemented as it is obsolete since gender revoultion has been progresing at a rapid rate. Hence i agree that gender revolution is more rapid than the scientific one but it goes largely unrecognised and unacknowleged.

Chan claims that technology has helped with the gender revolution, which i agree. As technology improves, the olden tiring and vigorous labour work are replaced with the use of machines. This gives women a chance to get into the working society as the previous jobs available are mostly only for men as they may be too strenuous for women. However, with an improvement in technology, women are given the same opportunities as men to be in the workforce, as the jobs in society now mostly just require a worker to have a set of skills required to be hired or the to be an employer. This claim is also applicable in Singapore as many Singaporean women are pushing the envelop by venturing into the workforce. One example is entrepreneurship in Singapore, more women are making their prominent debut in the society. Elim Chew, the founder of 77th street, a fashion retailer in Singapore, expanded her businesses internationally. Now there are twelve 77th street outlets located around Singapore and a 77th Street plaza is located in the popular shopping district of Xidan in Beijing, China. Through the help of technology improving transport and the quality of goods, women can now enter the workforce without the problem of it being too tough for them. Hence technology has helped with the gender revolution in Singapore by making life easier for everyone and this allows women to enter the workforce as well.

Chan Wai Leong claims that the change in management styles to suit women leads to the gender revolution. He is trying to say that by the use of cooperative management styles instead of the past authoritative management styles, women would be able to feel more comfortable and relaxed like they are at home. I agree with his statement because in the past where they use authoritative management styles, women were being discriminated and looked down upon as they are not allowed to work. However, with the use of the current cooperative management styles, women are able to enter the working society which provides them with job opportunities like men. This is clearly seen in the statistics that about 68% of the women in Singapore are currently in the workforce which uses cooperative management styles compared to the past that women were not allowed to work when authoritative management styles were used. Hence, I agree with Chan Wai Leong that the change in management styles from authoritative styles to cooperative styles to suit women has indeed lead to the gender revolution.

Chan claims that technology helped in gender revolution. Technology has given rised to machinaries that " are now operated by fingertips and authorians ". As such, women are able to work alongside with men in jobs that require intensive labour. With a press of few buttons, lesser labour is required for women which is suitable for them since both men and women "are different". Women's brain is developed to "do a dozen things at the same time, with her five senses became far more finely tuned" than men. This development allows women to gain an advantage in operating technology as most machinaries and computing of data require meticulous handling and effort to reduce the chances of errors. This allows women to gain a further recognition on their ability to be part of the working population and compete with the men in terms of jobs. Therefore, technology has aid in the advancement of gender revolution by allowing women having a higher chances of entering a workforce based on their genetics.

Chan claims that conflict in the gender revolution like divorce can be alleviated with knowledge. He says that the female and male thinking is different due to a difference in how their brains are developed. By understanding this difference, he view that male and females will be able to alleviate conflict. I disagree with his claim. Even if people know truly the difference between males and females, it does not mean that they will be able to deal with these differences. Despite increasing knowledge about these differences, the divorce rate in Singapore has increase drastically. Thus it shows that the knowledge did not alleviate conflict as it by his opinion should have reduced divorce rates. Furthermore, racism is still encountered in our society despite the improvement in our civilisation although it is mostly only passive racism. Thereby despite an increased amount in knowledge that racism is bad, there are still conflicts over it. This shows that knowledge does not eliminate conflict caused by the bias towards a certain group. Thus, this claim is incorrect and conflict in gender revolution cannot just be alleviated with knowledge.

Chan Wai Leong claims that technology has help to assist in the gender revolution. He claims that the invention of machines has help to reduce the amount of menial work that humans have to undertake, thus reducing the business of staying alive, whioch subsequently allowed women to enter the workforce. I agree with the views of the author as technogical advanceas has indeed improved the lives of people, including the women in society. Technology has given women a helping hand in their daily activites, including their careeers and even help women to break into the occupations that were once dominated by men. For example, with the invention and introduction of computers to Singapore, some jobs becoame less repetiitve. Hence, the number of women who have professional careers rose from just a few handful during the 1970s to almost half of the working female popluation by 2000. As such, it can be evidently seen that technology has contributed to the gender revolution.

he claims that gender education must be integrated with sex education to challenge and change traditional assumptions from our young onwards. i agree to his statement. he is trying to say that our young must be able to understand and accept these differences to reverse the human misery in failed relationships.

6.) Chan Claims that Gender Revolution is largely unrecognised and unacknowledged in recent years. He believes that the rights and freedom of woman is largely denied in most societies in recent times. Hence leading to gender inequality.

I disagree to this statement because despite the minorities around the world where woman are denied freedom due to religious and cultural issues, majority of the woman now enjoy freedom in many aspects of life, politically and socially.Hence , this shows that gender revolution is being recognised and acknowledged in most society . In my society , gender revolution is being recognized . Woman have more rights then before in recent years . With woman allowed to run for parliament and the set up of woman activist group AWARE in Singapore, it has shown that woman are getting more rights and freedom in recent years . Hence gender revolution is largely recognized and acknowledged in recent years .

Chan claims that the gender revolution is largely unrecognised and unacknowledged. This means the gender revolution is present in our society, people do not pay attention to it. I agree with Chan as it is evident that the gender revolution is prevalent in this world. However, it has not received as much attention as other doomsday revolution which has not happened. This shows that even if the gender revolution is occurring, it has received lesser recognition as compared to predicted end-of-world revolution as these revolutions are more interesting and appealing to the masses as people have not experienced these revolutions. Thus this proves the

Chan claims that "gender education should be integrated with sex education to resolve conflicts caused by gender revolution." I agree with the above statement as misunderstanding of the other gender is one of the main reason for the conflicts caused by gender revolution. In today's world, sex education generally includes education of sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse and reproductive health. It does not include the education of difference between genders. By having knowledge of the other gender one will be able to consider both gender's prospective. Hence one might be more understanding towards the other gender. Therefore the education of difference between genders might reduce the conflicts caused by gender revolution.

Chan claims that a change to cooperative management style suited women more, as a result women were more comfortable in the working place.

i agree to the claim of Chan Wei Leong as being able to be comfortable will allow for a more effiecient and productive

Chan says that we are still stuck in our grandparent's mindset. I disagree with Chan's claim. The 'Grandparent' mindset that Chan mentions is about how the people in the 1950s to 1970s used to feel about gender related issues. People in the past wanted sons in the family more than they wanted daughters as they feel that males are more capable than females, causing a male biased society to form. However, in today's society, both males and females have equal opportunity in many aspects of society and neither gender is considered an inferior one. Take Singapore's education system as an example, students are rewarded according to merit and merit alone, regardless of gender. Also, there are equal job opportunities for both genders. Anyone is allowed to work in any job they want, regardless of gender in Singapore. We now see females take on roles like CEO, a once male dominated position. One such example is Ms Chua Sock Koong, the CEO of Singtel, a prominent female CEO in Singapore. We also see more male nurses in hospitals in Singapore too. Although women CEO and male nurses are rare, the fact that it is happening proves that we are moving past traditional mindsets of gender roles and progressing to a modern, unbiased and nonrestrictive mindset, breaking free from the above mentioned 'Grandparent' mindset which predetermines a person's career or education because of their gender. This proves that Chan's claim in a false one, and that we are not stuck in our grandparent's mindset.

Chan states that the gender revolution is at its full flow. I agree to this point as in the past women do not receive education and stay home to do house chores while men receive education and work to earn a living for the family. Now women in my society receive education and are taking up close to 50% of the high and important job positions in Singapore. Hence this shows that gendder revolution is at its full flow as women are mostly now at equal with men.

The author claims that the cooperative management style used helped with the Gender Revolution, it allows women to enter the working world. This claim is true to a certain extent. In today's society, there are certain rules and regulations in place in some workplaces that gives women a sense of comfort and safety. Especially when, in the past, women are exposed to the dangers of sexual harassment by their male counterparts and are easily taken advantage of. With the changes in management styles, women can easily integrate into the working world, as compared to the past where women were not typically accepted in the working world. Furthermore, the stereotypical view of women as the less aggressive party, the cooperative management style gives women a better advantage in climbing the cooperate ladder. In addition, though the authoritarian and confrontational management is not completely abandoned, as there will still be a dominant figure that controls the management, there are certain women that take up this position, and this shows that women can integrate into a working world that is run by a confrontational management.

(From the passage: "authoritarian, confrontational management has largely given way to co-operative enterprises in which women feel at home.")

Chan claims that gender revolution is in full flow. I disagree with this claim as he is assuming that every country in the world has or already is experiencing gender revolution. This might not be true as some rural villages in countries such as in India might still be sticking to their old tradition where the women stays at home to take care of the children and the household chores while the men fulfill the job of bringing food back to the family. Hence he cannot assume that everyone has experienced gender revolution as there is no hard evidence to confirm that there is gender revolution everywhere as some communities in remote areas might not have exposure to the outside and hence they still stick to their traditional ways and ideology.

Chan claims that gender education should be intergrated with sex education.

I agree to the above point on how gender education should be intergrated with sex education as the current system only teach the children on physical difference of the different gender but do not actually tell them of the difference in them psychologically and emotionally. Thus it is important to intergrate gender education with sex education.

Chan claims that we are still stuck in the mindset of our grandparents. I disagree to such a claim as it is a generalization on everyone and also, gender revolution has been successful in many countries hence proving that Chan's claim is untrue. One of such countries is Singapore. Gender revolution is particularly successful in Singapore as we have implemented a meritocratic system which is based one's hard work rather than one's race, wealth or gender. Assuming Chan's claim is true, it would mean that Females would be unable to be rewarded as Males would be prided upon rather than Females. However, this is particularly untrue for the educational system. Singapore's educational system is based solely on merit. Hence, one prove that Chan's claim is untrue. Another example that proves that Chan's claim is untrue, would be the increasing female participation in the workforce. Singapore's small labor force necessitated the involvement of women at the workplace. Even now, there are continuing moves to increase female participation, which currently hovers at 70%. This has proven that it is falsely assumed that we have still been living in our grandparent's mindset and being resistant to change. As through the implement meritocratic system and the increased number of females in workplaces have shown that we have adapted to change rather than be resistant to it. Therefore, i disagree with Chan's claim of being stuck in our grandparent's mindset, for we, are not our grandparents.

Chan claims that conflict in the gender revolution like divorce can be alleviated with knowledge. He mentioned that "Understanding and acceptance of these differences is essential if the high divorce rates experienced in many countries are to be reversed". I do not agree with his link between the lack of understanding and acceptance of gender differences and high divorce rates. There are many complex issues and problems that cause divorce and not simply because these differences are not accepted. It is not justifiable to put the blame on the lack of knowledge of gender differences for the problem of divorce. Also, he implies that with knowledge and acceptance of these differences, divorce rates would be low or reduced, which is a bold assumption. In Singapore, there is increasing gender equality with meritocracy, where everyone is rewarded according to their efforts and hard work. However still, Singapore has one of the top sixteen divorce rates in the world. It goes to show that gender differences do not have direct relation with divorce rates, unlike what Chan implies and believes in. Therefore, I do not agree with Chan's view.

Chan Wai Leong states that birth-control techniques as well as the invention of less back-breaking and more productive ways of work has made working conditions more favorable to women. Hence, women has benefited and are able to join the workforce. I agree with this view to a large extent. Contraception has indeed given women control over the family size which allows them to restrict the size of their family in order for them to work. This can be shown from the declining birth rate and family size in Singapore while the percentage of women in the workforce is very large. Also, as work became physically less demanding, more women were able to do work that were deemed as a male's job. For example, more women in Singapore are joining Engineering, which is more popular with men, as Engineering becomes physically less demanding.

Point 7

I disagree with Chan's account

A claim is made that the divorce rates is directly affected by the lack of knowledge of gender differneces in the ewest. However, so there are and should have other factors rather than the lack of understanding to be the only factor affect the high divorce rates. Therefore, a baseless assumption cant be rukled to pin all the blame on the lack of knowledge of gender differences.. Further more it is also assumed by CHan that by bridging this lack of knowledge would in turn indroduce a decline in divorce rates. However so, in Singapore where meritocracy has taken firm ground, divorce rates are still on the high which contradict what Chan believes.

Hence, with the aforementioned I do not agree with Chan's views

Chan claims that contraception has allowed women to limit their families and enter the working world. I agree to this statement to a large extent. In the past, women were supposed to be home-makers, taking care of the chores, giving birth and taking care of children and basically every aspect of the family. In that sense, they were not allowed to step into the working world to work and their freedom was greatly limited. However, because of the understanding of contraception, women nowadays are given the option to limit their family. By using contraception, they can control the number of children they want or if they even want any child at all. By doing so, they are free from the responsibilities that come along with having children in the family, which thus grants them the freedom to step into the working world and work.

In Singapore, many couples attributed the usage of contraception to the need for the additional income due to economic pressures. As such, the usage of contraception allows this plan to succeed by preventing them from having any children. As such, it allowed women to step into the workforce. Hence, contraception has indeed allowed women to limit their families and enter the working world.