Ever since the beginning of time, men have been the ones who were faced with heavy responsibilities of going to war, working on the railroad...etc. Women have also suffered a great amount of difficulty and hardship, but not to the extent that men (such as toilers) have. In "The Men We Carry in Our Mind" Sanders explains why men's lives are often harder or why their lives have been considered harder than the lives …showed first 75 words of 495 total…

…showed last 75 words of 495 total…or serious injuries, depending on the type of machine. Babies can learn to do some things on their own such as going to the bathroom, but machines can not, they are totally dependant on us for all things such as oil changes...etc. Although occupations such as construction work are nowadays readily available to women, they were not back in Sanders childhood. That is probably why he mentions that men had harder lives than women