In Chile, sexism is a problem in this country, differentiation
between men and women produce battle of the sexes and how should I behave, and
the sad situations, produce discriminations between men and woman. And this an
old problem and still present in these days. In my opinion, sexism produces the
capabilities of people to weaken.
This sexism manifests in differences in work,
for example “this work it’s only for men, because it’s a hard work, and women
it’s a weaker sex”, the men is in charge the many “hard work”, because social
convention says “Men are stronger and de women are weak”, this social
convention it’s because many times the men are more tall or larger that women.
But in reality it’s not always so. One example is construction jobs.
Or sexism manifests in how people behave,
because Chilean men thinks should be rude, for example, they should not cry, this
they learn it as children, but instead, girls learn to be sentimental and for
social convention is a good thing. But this restricts expression of men,
because when they (boys) are children, they are more sentimental and sensitive
that girls and during development social convention into action. And this does
see woman as weaker sex.
In the Chilean family the sexism manifest when
the mother is household management, she cooks, cleans, she stay with children,
and also she works outside the home, and men only works outside the home, and
sometimes help at home. This is what happens in my house, my mother works so
hard outside the home, and also she is a household management and my father works
outside the home, but he no help at home, he only watch TV. I don’t kwon my mom
hold this, or why my father is so. Come on! We are in the 21st
century!
In conclusion,
both men and women they have the same capabilities and we must empower!! This
is an illogical problem, get it over with!
See you soon! I hope...
