It’s a shame that I live in such a society where
girls are still evaluated as a potential employee not because she is most
capable for the job but because she can manage time. It has never been a
problem for a guy to take a job that requires late hours of duties or travelling
away from home but for a girl the same things become bigger issues than they
actually need to be.
If you are a
girl who is as much educated as a guy
and wants to go out into the world and make something out of your life, you my
dear friend have invariably faced this problem. I accept girls are biologically
more fragile than a guy is. I accept the differences that god has given us by
birth. However, if you are going to educate a girl in the same ways as you
educate guys, and later on ask her to stay home because she is a girl, where is
the fairness in that? It’s like you showed a small kid the gate of Disneyland
and told them they can never go inside!
I had a conversation about gender disparities in the
workplace with a male colleague one day. I caught him using a phrase such as “like
a girl” to a guy. I felt like being a girl was like being a criminal or being
weak and vulnerable. Upon a friendly confrontation, my friend says that, “Yes,
guys and girls are equal, but can you go home after nine? If you can, then maybe
we are equals!”I was dumbfounded. So, being
a girl we needed to follow the time factor theory. I knew we lived in a
patriarchal society but I did not ever realize that before saying you are
capable to do something in this society and you are an equal to your male
counterparts, you need to realize that you wore a skirt! How disheartening is
that?
Dear parents and society owners, please realize if
you are going to raise your daughters with the same education and facilities as
your sons, there will come a day when your daughters will want to go out like
yours sons and employ their education to make a life. Be kind then, and let her
do what is best for her. Guide her, don’t buy her a watch and tell her the time
theory shit! Be brave and let her figure her life out because it was your fault
in the first place that you taught her to dream big, now don’t stop the girl on
the go!
