Gender equality has been a long lasting as well as a hot
issue in education field. There are so many people, especially women, wondering,
“why we have to recognize ourselves as women or men and to do what we are
expected to do”. We are taught to be a “girl” when we were in early age. Parents
bought us Barbie dolls and pink dresses but if we don’t like them we would be
judged as “ boyish”. This happens more commonly when we grow up. Take choosing
a major in the university for an example, girls are advised to consider about
art or social science instead of science and engineering. Even in Iran, women
are not allowed to major in some distinct specialties.
Chinese social has more difficulties in achieving gender
equality because our culture in ancient time passed on generations and
generations that women should not be educated and should stay at home to take
care of the family. This shapes the idea in many Chinese’ minds blindly and
invisibly that women would better finish their education earlier and get an
easy job to support their husbands. This is firmly connected to the education
and the self-recognition of gender when people are young. Once you recognize
you are female, you are suppose to be what female is like in that social.
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