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Soft life: Gender equality involves teaching women to pay their own bills

There's an expectation most women walk into relationships with. Whether they have money or not, they expect the man to always pick the tab and to take over paying most of their bills, if not all bills.

You would think that with equality most women would be open to paying bills but they are not. It is one part of equality we cannot seem to wrap our heads around and that is exhibited by how women who pay bills for men are frowned upon.

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