Everyone knows double standards are, and will probably always, be around and relevant in today's society. No matter how much women fight for gender equality, it seems that the one thing we cannot get rid of is the harsh double standards produced from society's "norms" for the different genders. Here are the top 3 worst double standards that you can still find in place today:

1. Females are responsible for staying home, taking care of the children and the house while men are allowed to go out and get jobs.

Thank God this double standard is slowly disappearing thanks to people who fight for gender equality. While it is still common for women to get judged for being working moms, and men get judged for being stay-at-home dad's, it is slowly being less and less frowned upon.

It's becoming the "norm" to see women wake up, take care of their kids, take them to school, go to their jobs, and handle their business all while being a responsible mother. But it wasn't long ago when women would get questioned for working and having kids at the same time, like it was some sort of sin.

Let's not forget about single moms either, who find themselves having to work and raise their child/children at the same time, because that's what they have to do. They get judged by people who simply do not know how to mind their own business. If a woman can work, put food on the table, and raise her kids all at the same time, who are you to speak negatively on the subject? Let her do what she needs to do! Women are the best at multitasking anyways, we know what we're doing.

2. Being too blunt or open.

This is one of the few that I absolutely hate the most. It is okay for men to be brutally honest, speak their minds, curse, shout, all of the above, but as soon as a woman does it she's frowned upon and seen as "manly" or "aggressive", and I've even heard "too bossy".

Growing up, I was always the first to speak my mind and say what I felt needed to be said. It got me in trouble all throughout elementary, middle, and high school with progress reports and report cards coming back to my parents saying, "Karla's a great student but she talks too much and always has something to say" or "Karla seems to not know how to keep things to herself sometimes."

Finally around the age of 17, I realized it was okay for me to not comment on everything every now & then but I still have trouble keeping my smart mouth to myself. Now, I'm not saying it's okay to be in a restaurant cursing like a sailor but even if I did, whose business it it? No one's but mine. If men get to get away with it, so should I without the stares and the frowns.

3. Having a few "too many" sexual partners.

Well, everyone knows about this one. Probably the most common and outrageous stereotype that females fight so hard to make go away, but yet it seems to never disappear. It starts, typically in high school, and continues through all of adulthood. It goes a little something like this:

A boy can have a high body count (how many girls he's had sex with), and be considered the coolest man on the block, all his friends love him and he's the King of the world for scoring all those females, but if a female has the same body count as this boy, she's automatically depicted as a "slut" or a "hoe".

Where's the fairness in that one?? Why can't females be considered the shit for scoring all those boys? This ridiculous double standard has been around for decades, and I sadly don't see it going away anytime soon, even though it should. Let a women be a little bit too "promiscuous" and everyone runs away.. but I thought guys loved females who knew what they wanted? How conflicting.

These are only three of the worst gender-based double standards in today's society, there are so many more to be spoken on and dealt with. God bless those who are out there fighting for gender equality and for those those who support women and men in whatever it is that they decide to do with their lives, whether it is be a stay-at-home dad or a working mother, or a stay-at-home working mother/father.

Everyone has their own stories and their own struggles, it's bad enough that society decides to judge us for what we do and don't do, so why judge each other? Live your life, do what you want, forget society's "norms"!!