英语辩论-男人和女人谁对社会的贡献大

Good morning everyone. I'm honored to be nominated as a master for today's debate. The topic is \"men or women contribute more to the society”. As we all know , there are two kinds of people in the world , men and women .They play different roles in the society . But they are all indispensable .Even though I'm a girl, I have to admit that men make a huge contribute to the society. So it is really hard to say which one(who) contribute(s) more to the society. But our debater(s) have their own viewpoints . We have 8 debaters today, 4 on each side. This is the affirmative side(pointing to the affirmative),they believe that men contribute more to the society . This is the negative side(pointing to the negative), they hold that women contribute more to the society. Now, I'd like to introduce the procedure of today's debate. First, introduce their viewpoints. Second, free debate. Third, conclusion. As everybody is ready , now let's start the debate.

First ,welcome the affirmative side ,number one debater.

(正方)

Today, our topic is about who contributes more to the society, men or women. As we all know, for most of human existence, our society is man-dominated. At almost every pivotal historic moment, the people who navigated the direction of history are always males. This is beyond dispute. Those great ancient emperors and kings who create prosperous and powerful kingdoms, and those who desire to explore and discover our splendid nature, dedicated their lives to invent, to create the inventions that entirely changed the human world into highly advanced civilization, they are nearly all men. We can give countless illustrations such as

emperor QinShihuang, scientist Newton, inventor Edison, thinker Marx, etc. All in all, we hold the view that men contribute more to the society.

主持人：Thank you, now it is the negative side's turn .

(反方)Our opinion is that “Women contribute more to society than men”. If you look up in a dictionary, you will find what the word “contribute” means. The definition in the dictionary is: to give money, help, ideas, experience etc to something that a lot of other people are involved in. According to the definition, we can see obviously that women contribute more to society than men. My reasons may be as follows:

First, the role they play in family. As we all know that women are in charge of the whole family’s daily life, make meals, wash clothes, clean houses, bore children and then take care of children. All the things above are basic element to make a family run normally and happily. And we all know that society is made up of all families. So, at the role women play well, the family will be more harmonious, and then there’s no doubt the society will be more harmonious, too.

Second, the role they play in society. In the past, women are fettered by cultural effects and by the tradition idea of family. But now, things changed. As it’a a society call for women’s liberation, nowadays, there are an increasingly large amount of women who go out and make their own career. In this process, women make their own contributions to the society, aren’t there more and more Business Superwoman in society, and at the same time women aloso have to take

care of the whole family’s daily life. So how can you say that women are less contributory, how can you say that men contribute more to the society.

Finally, the characters they are born with. It’s know to everbody that men are bellicose and impatient. On the contrary, women are always peacefull and patient. According the the history, men’s shortcomings in characters have cause many disasters. For examples, Emperor Qin Shi Huang who burn the books and bury the scholars alive, and Adolf Hitler who was regarded as one of the initiators who lead to the World War 1.

With the reasons above, we have enough evidence to say that women contribute more to society than men.

主持人：

They all express their viewpoints clear and perspicuous. Let's move on to the free debate part.

(正方)My dear friend, do you mean “women hold up half the sky”. But could you tell us why people always emphasize the important of the half sky held up by women instead of the half sky held up by men?

In the ancient times, a woman without talent is virtuous. In general, woman’s knowledge level is lower than that of man. What’s more, woman is weaker than man in physiology. There is no doubt that at that time most of the contribution to

the society was made by men. But with the development of the society, women can hold up half of the sky. But, we all know just half of it, which means women are still helping men to hold up the sky. Man is still taking the leader role. Even though, many successful women have proved sometimes women can do as well as men. But what’s the actual situation? In all the social classes, the top leaders are always men. For example, we have so many men presidents instead of women presidents. Granted that women do have the ability to contribute, but base on the fact, women didn’t do contribution as much as men.

(反方)Women's contributions are usually behind-the-scenes, while men often say work comes first, women have no choose to sacrifice themselves to take care of the elder and the child. What is more, they sometimes go to work too. They devote a lot to the family, and play an important role in making the family's happiness and harmony. As long as family is the foundation of the society, they do a lot to the society's harmony.

There is a saying that every succeed man need a woman behind him to support him. Why? Because women often do the most complicated work, such as washing, cooking, and caring. They carry the obstacles for men to become succeed. Without women, men can do little contribution.

Women are more careful and tender, which is useful and helpful to child's growing. Most kindergarten teachers and nurses are women. They do a lot to the society's future.

(正方)Yes, you got it! I quite agree with you. I admit that a woman means so much to a man. Men can never live well without women. But please remember our topic, women sacrificed much to men, and men contribute more to the society. Quite right! (驳燕玲)

(正方)Firstly，it’s incorrect to claim women play a more important role by emphasizing the minority women who make enormous contributions. Take Soong May-ling and Madame Curie for example, which just tell us that women are capable to do the same thing as men do. But, the fact is that most women didn’t choose to do that despite of their having capabilities or intelligence. And thus the development of our society is pushed by countless men except for women who are few and far between. The contributions made by men are far beyond women’s whether in quality or quantity.

When it comes to the importance of domestic happiness, I have to acknowledge that women have more impacts on men then men have on themselves. Although woman seldom devote to diplomacy and internal affairs, they definitely create a good living environment for men. However, what we discuss today is who makes more contributions to society rather than who makes more contributions to men. So, compared with women, men contribute more to the society.

As you’ve said, there are some men that, indeed, have brought disasters to the society; yet, we can’t deny the contributions made by men. Our task today is to work out men or women who make more contributions, not to compare the

difference after merits offset faults.

Our society has always been run by men and men are more powerful. Furthermore most of the contributions towards our society have been made by men. Men are the head of families and controlled the means of the production, and women played a secondary and supportive role as opposed to a leadership one.

（反方）As for that point, your argument is totally untenable. Ladies and gentlemen, we are no longer in the primitive stage of slash and burn cultivation when bigger muscles implied more agricultural productivity. We are in an age of mechanism and automation, in which more significance is attached to intelligence and wits. And it’s intelligence and wits that makes us men, not muscles. Even when muscles can be of some avail in sports undertakings, men did not live up to our expectation as women did. To illustrate, take Beijing Olympic Games for example, among the 100 medals that we had won, women won 27 gold medals, men 24; women won 11 silver medals, men 10; women won 19 bronze medals, men 8. Altogether women won 57 medals, while men 42(The last one was shared by both men and women.). Another example is Chinese football. The best ever record of Chinese male football team was made in 2002 Japan/South Korea World Cup, when Chinese male football team broke through the elimination round, making the so-called historic record. Take a look at the Chinese female football team. They had won the champion of 6th and 7th Asian Cup in 1986 and 1989. They were the sliver winner of Atlanta Olympic in 1996 and Women World Cup in 1999. In addition, Sun Wen was named the women’s world player of the year in

1999. It’s so hard for us to expect a men’s world player of the year while the Chinese football fans were still waving homemade signs which read “Chinese football, rush out of Asia!”

(正方)Yes, in a way. But haven’t you realized what you said can just indicate that people of either sex are capable of doing the same job well. And the fact is, many women have abilities to create their own career, but they didn’t do it. Perhaps the opportunity this man-dominating society offered to women is so rare. Any way, their contribution is very limited. (驳国阳)

(正方)1.In human history, there are many great statesmen; scientists are women, such as Sung Mei-ling, Madame Curie and so on. But I think these are a few examples that women make great contributions to the society. And they just indicate that women can also do the things that men always do. We must declare that although women can also many jobs that men always do, they don't do them. So from the history, we can know that men who make progress in society are countless, but women are rare.

2 even though women do more contribution to our family, and someone may say that, it's women behind the men, but who is over the women or behind or protector of women? the answer is men. And today's topic is that who contributes more to the society, not women contributes more to men.

3 In our history, there are also many instances that men bring many disasters to our society. For example Qin Shihuang, Adolf Hitler. But I think that even though

a few men bring bad effort to our society, much more men do help to our society's progress, such as Mao Zedong, Newton and so on. And if we say that men bring disasters to our society, women also do it, the most famous women as CiXi, Lvzhi.

4 Men are stronger than women in many aspects such as physical strength. Men play an very important role in our society development .They are the organizers, the workers and so on. Take a look at our government and politics 90% of the position is being taken by the men. So men is more in contributing towards the society. Even though today there are some women have a higher salary than most of the men. but this is just a small number!At the top of society we can see men everywhere: most world rulers, presidents, prime ministers, most members of Congress and parliaments, most CEOs of major corporations, and so forth — these are mostly men.

5 Because of the discrimination to the female, women can't make great contribution to our society?

We all know that in the development of the human history, first appeared the matriarchal society. In that society, women had the power to do everything they want to do, they was not discrimination to them. And in contrast, at that time men did not have any social status. But did the women make great contribution to the society development? I think the answer is no. In the end, the matriarchal society was replaced by patrilineal society . From that time, males make the human society develop fast. Why did it happen? Why did not \"women's world\" last longer than the \"men's world\"? Can this manifest that the society was eliminated because

human society development needs higher advanced civilization.

(反方)Although both men and women contribute to society, as to contributions to the society, I would definitely stand with the opinion that women contribute more to the society than men.

（反方）Only a woman can carry in her body an eternal being which bears the very image of God. Only she is the recipient of the miracle of life. Only women can conceive and nurture this life using her own flesh and blood, and then deliver a living soul into this world. God has bestowed upon her alone a genuine miracle---the creation of life, and the fusing of an eternal soul with mortal flesh. This fact alone established the glory of motherhood, and also the glory of women.

(正方)Contribution to the society includes material contribution and spiritual contribution.

First of all, men do more material contribution. According to a survey conducted in 1990, the average monthly incomes for male and female workers in urban areas were 193.15 yuan and 149.60 yuan respectively, with women receiving only 77.4 percent of the pay given to men. In rural areas, the average annual incomes for men and women were 1,518 yuan and 1,235 yuan respectively, with women getting 81.4 percent of the earnings of men.

Moreover, men do more spiritual contribution:

When some disasters happen, man can always keep a clear mind and does something really helpful. Did you still remember the earthquake took place in Qinghai province? Aid workers are in a race against time to save thousands of earthquake victims stranded near the epicenter. Chinese soldier went to the earthquake-stricken area at top speed for succoring the injured person. Most of the soldiers are men, right? They served the public with dedication and integrity. Their selfless dedication and bravery do ever lasting spiritual contribution to the society.

We always say “teachers are engineers of soul”. Teachers make notable spiritual contribution to the society. The survey given by China Education Yearbook in 1992 showed that only 14.6% of the graduate student tutors are women. It’s clear that men do more contribution to the higher education, which is a part of men’s spiritual contribution.

The education level of women is lower than men. In 2002, the female students in college are only 40.98% of all the college students. Then we can conclude men have higher comprehensive quality, which can help them to do more spiritual contribution.

So according to the analysis of material contribution and spiritual contribution, we can safely come to the conclusion that men contribute more to the society than women.

主持人：Wow , what a wonderful debate . Now, conclusion part. Let's see if any

of them can give a strong support for their topic.

(反方)Well, ladies and gentlemen, women, from biological point of view, are bestowed with a unique ability to conceive, to give birth, to nurture and educate their children. They also had to suffer the sickness of being pregnant, they dare not take pills because they take the health of the baby into serious consideration, they had to bear the sharp pain of delivery, they had to feed the baby in the depth of night, they had to try desperately to keep a slim figure to prevent any possibility of their husband’s abandonment just because of their changed, sacrificed figure for delivery. While at the same time, they burden themselves with most of the domestic affairs, they refuse to give up their dreams; they work as teachers, policemen, engineers, scientists, doctors, journalists, coal miners or what not. You have no idea or you have always been neglecting the enormity of the contribution that women have made and would have made. All in all, ladies and gentlemen, the victory of this debate alone is not the thing that my teammates and I are seeking for. We just wan to convince you when everything is said and done, women still contribute more than men.

(正方) We have long been debating on the topic. Indeed, we are so impressed by the eloquence of our fellow debaters. But on another thought, however, it is not hard to find some mistakes in your argument. For example, you have evaded definitions. What we are talking about is the contribution to the society instead of contribution to the family. So we would like to reiterate our viewpoint that men contribute more to the society than women. Let’s conclude our opinion as follows:

On the one hand, let’s talk about the subject condition.

First, man’s physical strength is enormous. If a man and a woman have the same knowledge background and skills, man can do better and do more contribution.

Second, on the mental aspect, we always hold the opinion that woman is emotional, while man can always make decisions swiftly. The different can be noticed when people are dealing with some emergencies. Just think about, who make the decision that we must press ahead with the reform and opening up policy. The answer is man, right?

So, on the subject condition, we can reach the conclusion that woman has less ability than man to do contribution to the society.

On the other hand, let us down to the objects condition.

First, the public opinion makes people believe men should do more contribution than women do, and even make women themselves believe that they do not have duty or ability to do contribution.

Second, the fact of life gives women few chances to make contribution. The unemployed women are much more than unemployed men.

Looking back to history and our daily life, we can find the men who help us to

make progress in society are countless. But women who make a big contribution are rare as the phoenix. So base on the reasons we mentioned above, we cherish the unshakable belief that men contribute more to the society than women.

Thank you.

主持人结语：Thank you. Both teams have showed great debate ability in today's fierce debate. And I think all debaters need to congratulate themselves for their outstanding effort.

1.Prejudice against women violates the fundamental principle that all people are created equal.

2.Women should not be treated differently from men since,according to statistics,there is no basic difference between the standards and quality of work performed by men and women who do the same work.

3.This is an unfair world: most of the top position is in society,like company directors,judges,university professors,etc. are occupied by men.

4.This is a male-dominant world.Over centuries men have been training and educating women to consider themselves inferior and to accept their superior position.As a result ,not only men are prejudiced against women,but some women are also prejudiced against themselves because they believe they are really inferior and only fit for household chores.

5. Women should no longer be treated as the inferior sex.They should stand side by side with men and define their role in society,in which they can choose to work outside or stay at home and in which they will have more time to develop their own interests.

6. It is a shame in the modern world to confine women to the home and block their way to the full exploitation of their capacity and potential.

7. Men should take an equal share in housework so as to liberate women from the kitchen.

8. Women should be given an equal chance of education in order to compete with men on an equal footing.

9 It is unreasonable for authorities to refuse to promote able women to important posts just because they have children to bring up.

6. Actually women today have already got as much freedom as they could possibly want.They enjoy the right to vote; They can go to university; they can compete with men in any professional field on equal terms.

男人对社会更重要，原因：

1、评价和这对社会更重要的标准是何者对社会的贡献更大

2、当今社会男人由于在体力与理科思维能力上的优势对社会的建设力量更大一些

3、由于受历史原因和习俗影响，大多数情况下，对于家庭来说女人的重要性强于男人，但家庭并不属于社会的范畴，我们今天讲的社会是建设方面的

女人对社会更重要，原因：

1、一个成功的男人背后必定有一个成功的女人，女人影响并促进了男人对社会建设

2、女人确实在生理方面上的差异在一些方面上的能力弱于男人，但是社会建设是多方面的，女人在某些方面的贡献也是多于男人们的

3、当今社会提倡男女平等，但是对方辩友的很多观点让我们看不到这种平等，今天评价何者对社会更为重要的标准不应该放在社会男女平等思潮还不稳定的当今社会，因此纯粹的事实判断是站不住脚的，应该理性的从价值的角度上来考虑。