2.

The diagram below illustrates the amount of unpaid work hours per week
finished by married men and women.

Overall, we can see that the number of hours per week spending on this kind
of work is unequally divided between two sexes.

Considering household without children, the wives are estimated to

contribute approximately 30 hours a week to such tasks as housework or
gardening, while the husbands only have to spend about 18 hours on them.

When one or two children are born, the difference seems to be exaggerated.
Women’s participation in these activities rockets to over 50 hours, much of it
maybe due to childcare responsibilities. In contrast, the men’s figure is nearly the
same as households having no children.

Surprisingly, men tend to do unpaid jobs even less than before when it
comes to families with 3 offsprings or more. They just spend about 15 hours in a
week, compared to a peak of 55 hours’ female contribution.

3.

It is common knowledge that children are the core of the future world.
Therefore, choosing a right method to educate them become a matter of life and
death. Some people adore the idea that a sense of competition needs to be advocated
in the school environment. Meanwhile, others think that cooperation is the key to
success rather than competing with each other. In this essay, I intend to look at both
sides of the argument and give my opinion.

On the one hand, someone put their faith in competition because it brings
students several advantages. First of all, it motivates children to pursuit the
perfection. As our children live in an environment where others are competitive, they
will be encouraged to try their best in order to keep up with friends around. This kind
of enhancement stays along with children even when growing up and support them
to make further headways in their whole life. What is more, emulative guys tend to
develop many new capacities which may not belong to them before. Through
competitions, children can train and sharpen such things as their independent skills,
confidence and ability of working under pressure. In addition, competition is
actually indispensable to survive in the modern society as well as be self-qualified
in the future employment.

On the other hand, cooperation is supposed to be nourished by many people

for different reasons. Firstly, children will improve their collaborative skills. Only
when working with others, they are able to realize their strength and weakness, learn
to share difficulties with partners, and you know, “a problem shared is a problem
halved”. Furthermore, something like a sense of responsibility, communication
skills, leadership skills, … also start to take shape. They are all considered to be
fundamental in the daily life. Together with these abilities, children may establish
friendly relationships with others by collaborating. As a result, they will receive
more and more supports and hence the way to success becomes shorter and shorter.

To put it in a nutshell, both competition and cooperation play important roles

in the development of every child. For this reason, in my view, we had better
combine these two methods in educating students so as to reach the best results.