It is no news that gender inequality is one global issue that has posed manifest difficulty to global efforts aimed at its reduction. Girls still face discrimination at all levels notwithstanding the fact that well concerted efforts have been taken to bring an end to the unfortunate situation.
It is important that we think about our efforts and how helpful they are, if they have been productive, are there new ways to push it forward? These are questions we must consider.
About Inequality and acceptance, could there be ways by which even the front liners of the campaign against inequality be unconsciously accepting the status quo?
Why do we celebrate women and girls for being the first to achieve a feat that has been reached by several men in the history of a particular thing? I believe that it's high time we started seeing this things as normal in order to gmain respect and show the world that progress is being made.
A girl child that achieves what a male child has achieved should not be celebrated because she is the first female to achieve it or because she is the only girl amidst the guys or other similar
circumstances.
A girl should be celebrated because of her achievements and capacity and not because she's the first of her gender to achieve what she did. That way, we show that there is no difference between the male and female capacity. It should no more be extraordinary that a girl child is the first to achieve what 100 male children have achieved ahead of her. We accept the status quo of inequality when we foster it through such actions.
Celebrate a girl child today because her achievements are results of her ability and not because she is the first female to achieve what several male children have.
The position taken in this post is not to berate the achievements of the girl child or global efforts at achieving gender equality, it only suggests that these achievements should only exalt the capacity of the girl child and not an exaltation which is a function of such achievement's novelty among the female gender.
Reducing gender inequality is a task meant for every one and we must not by any means foster existing inequalities through our actions aimed at reducing them.
This post is in commemoration of the International Day of the Girl Child.
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