Gentlemen, imagine bending these gender rules

Ever since Italian artist Marco Perego adopted his wife Zoe's surname to become Marco Saldana (how aww!?), women world over have been getting a little more wishful than ever and thinking of all those things that good men like Mr Saldana could start sharing with womenkind to make this world a truly equal, and better, place.
From leaving their `maika' and coming to live with the wife, to staying up all night to calm that bawling baby down -Hyderabad's women tell us what they'd happily palm off to their male counterparts if they had a chance...
Men should go through labour pain
Stand-up comedian Radhika Vaz admits she would be a mom, er... dad, by now, because in a perfect world, it's the man who would give birth! “If I had to choose one thing that men could do, instead of us, it would the men who give birth. I think all women would love that," enthusesVaz.
Men should wear the mangalsutra and sindoor...
“As women in India, we can never know for sure who we can hit on," rues activist Tejaswini Madabhushi. “Married women are expected to wear the mangalsutra, sindoor and toe rings to announce to the world that they are `taken'. So even if a guy wants to hit on a married woman, he'd know from the glaring sindoor that it's forbidden. The poor woman can't even indulge in some harmless flirting! On the other hand, for men, there's no clear way of knowing if he is married or not; whether we can flirt with him or not..."
Unfair, we say!
Men should marry into the girl's family
Well, this is one question a lot of women ask -why doesn't a man have to leave his `mayka' and come home to live with the wife and her parents? And no one seems to have a convincing answer to that. When shuttler Ashwini Ponnappa watched Dil Dhadakne Do, that was her take off point. “Why do girls have to leave their family instead of the guy?
Imagine if the guy married into the girl's family. That would be so nice!“ she shares. We're sure a lot of girls would agree with Ponnappa.
Men should experience PMS stress, every single month!
How many times have you had a fight with your guy and gotten the response, `Sheesh, are you PMSing?' Don't you just want to the punch the hell out of him?
Well, if women had their way, men would PMS too! “It's like whenever you have a bad day, people ask, `Are you PMSing?' And when you do apologise after your erratic behaviour because it is really PMS, they say, `Yeah, you always blame it on the hormones and get away'.That just gets me fuming! I want men to understand that the problem is real -that we can't help what we think or do on some days," says Abhineeta Raghunath, a blogger.
But why wonky hormones? If actor Lakshmi Manchu had her way, men would go through every kind of monthly pain women have to go through. “I want men to go through monthly pains and aches.I can do without it entirely. It's so unfair (laughs). Well, it's important that we share everything when we are living a progressive life where women are also breadwinners, sharing every other responsibility with men. I wish science changes this; it's high time."
Men should take paternity leave, nurse the baby, while women get back to work:
The women do all the hard work -bear the child for nine months, go through excruciating labour pain and give birth. And after all that, we are also expected to put our careers on the backburner! “Why can't women simple get back to their jobs and the men stay back home on a paternity leave and take care of the baby?" asks Syeda Noor, a HR professional. “Right from changing diapers to feeding and putting them to bed, let men do all the post delivery hard work."
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