Our traditional society then was an ordered
community filled with belief or custom handed down from one generation to
another. It has been a long establish procedure but which has cause
more harm
than good to the female child through gender discrimination and inequality.
Gender Inequality:
Simply refers to the unequal treatment of male and
female in society in all aspects of life both social, economic and political.
In Our society, it is not only platitude but the actual acting out of
discriminatory attitude. In families nowadays, some fathers develop and have
negative mental attitude towards the choice of the sex of the baby to be born
in the family. The choice most often favours the male child, consequently when
this negative mental attitude and preferential choice is broken by the birth of
a girl child, mental torture result. Psychologists can agree with me that
mental torture is close to psychosis and can drive a genetically healthy person
crazy.
The
chauvinist who feels and believes that the male gender is more superior, more
cherished and more accepted baby never wanted or cared to re-orientate his
thought process to accept with all his heart, all his will and to accommodate
the female child in the fulfillment of his marriage vow to accept all the
children God will give him and train them in the love of God. This hatred starts
with the mother whom the man accuses of failing to give him the desired male
child. Unfortunately, the men who frown at girl children do not know that there
are some men who have endless nightmares and brain torture over how to get
their daughter or on. Yet they have everything that distinguishes them from the
crowed in terms of wealth, personality and perhaps education. Discrimination on
the basis of being a female in a male dominated society of ours in
culture-related.
From
birth, the girl child is reminded for her roles and train to actualize them as
a girl child, lady, mother and
grandmother. According to Adeline Idike (2007) “Women have been brain-washed
and conditioned by men and society to see and accept themselves as inferior and
undervalued. This discrimination affects the education of the girl child the
demerit of which places the girl child subordinates and unequal to her male
counterparts. This differentiation caused a great inequality in their lives
today. The ideology between the girl child and boy child, man and woman is
shared across societies the world over although with vary degree of adherence
from country to country. After all the girl child however, has the courage,
charisma and leadership potentials and the interest to queue and compete with
men in politics.
Thanks
to Mary Slessor who stopped the killing of twins and also to our modern period
whereby everybody is in the same level.
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