Career Woman or House Wife

So this week in class we talked about gender-role and same-sex attraction, two things that at a non-LDS college would have sparked some great debates. In my class it was a lot of people pretty much saying the same thing. To be fair I don't know that I have an opinion on whether homosexuality is a genetic thing or not. I personally don't agree with homosexuality, but then, a lot of people don't a agree with Mormonism. To each their own.
However when it comes to gender roles I do have a bit to say. I believe that people put to much emphasis on men and women being the same, because really truly, we aren't. Now, a man may be more feminine, and a woman more masculine good for them. If a woman wants to become a firefighter good for her, but she should have to pass all of the same tests that the male firefighters pass. Why? Because we are equal, not in ability, but in rights. When there is a fire in my home I want to be picked up and carried to safety, not dragged by my ankles hitting my head on every obstacle on the way out the door. To those female firefighters out there I say good for you! But I don't believe that tests should be made easier to allow more women to pass them. Yes they may have to work harder but that is life.
I also think that putting too much of an emphasis on what a man or a woman should be can be detrimental. If a woman grows up, and spends her whole life being told that a real woman wants a career, and she really wants a family, and wants to stay at home and cook, she feels like a failure. It isn't true. People are who they are, a male baker, a female firefighter, they are people.
And I personally don't like the way the world is going. I want to be a stay at home mom, to cook and clean and raise my kids. Barefoot and pregnant as the saying goes, and I don't like that the world says that is a subservient position. That women who choose that are somehow less. It angers me. Women have fought so hard to get out of the kitchen that it is now looked down upon, and that isn't fair either. Career woman or house wife, we have the right to choose, no one is better than the other.