The Girl Child

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Yesterday 11-10-2021 was International girl child day and I was at a school to help with the setting up of the projector and other instruments. The girls in the school were gathered in a hall and a live zoom meeting was projected to them.

Overall my yesterday wasn't so pleasant, it was filled with one headache or another. I still have some money lost in transit and hope it will be resolved today. But let me stick to the good part of yesterday and leave out the not so good part of it.

Back to the seminar, the speakers did their best and talked about various topics. It was more like a conversation directed at adults and one of the speakers mentioned how she wish parents are listening. The students obediently listened with feigned interest. I felt the whole effort of setting up the instruments will go to waste if they don't get the message being passed so I decided to talk to them a little or maybe it's the urge to talk to them that pushed me, I was just looking for an excuse. lol

What was intended to be a short conversation ended up being a long one. Some of the things I mentioned include:

Amid Gender inequality, you can stand out

For years we've been talking about giving the girl child equal opportunities and equal playground with the males but things don't look like it's changing anytime soon. We still have families that believe the female child is less of a child compared to the male. We still have workplaces and society that believes certain positions and duties shouldn't be allotted to a girl but we've seen great women come out from these societies.

The best example i love giving is Madam Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala the Director general of the World Trade Organization. She's one of Nigeria's greatest export. She survived and triumphed in a society that doesn't look favourable to her. A pace setter and living legend.

We have women that did the unthinkable despite the discrimination from all sides, they never let this be an excuse. Sometimes I get tired of hearing "feminism and anti-feminism or Patriarchy ". We've dwell so much on this that it now looks like something else. People now hide under the flag of feminism to carry out their agenda. We need to let these girls know that the world they are going into won't make things easy for you but you can do it because those that succeeded in time past faced similar issues.

The odds are against you but you can turn things around.

In school, the male child is regarded with much respect but when a lady distinguishes herself, she earns much respect. I know ladies that are leading their class in terms of academics. Also, I know departments and faculties led by a girl. Our newly elected president is a girl and when the campaign was on, one of the things mentioned by some friend was "Why will a girl lead us?." I replied, "Why not?" We've had male presidents for years and we can't point out a single they've done.

Leadership is not by gender. Being a boy doesn't mean you have an extra brain cell to rule. Our ladies need to fight for themselves, let their voices be heard. Go for political posts if they want and not just aspire to be the "side guy". It's common to see ladies taking up the post of "deputies, assistants, vice etc". Back in secondary school, I know two ladies that pushed me to the limit, I call them "the witches". They floored any guy that challenges them, because of them I increased my reading hour just to be able to compete with them.

I hope my generation will be different

I hope the future mothers and fathers we will have won't make any child feel less human. I hope Fathers will love their daughters as much as they love their sons. I hope that the daughter will be able to talk to her dad about her fears and worry without restrain. I hope that the girl child will be given a voice in the society.

Thanks for reading! 👩‍⚕️💚👩‍✈️.

I'm sorry for the long absence from various articles. Also for the constant change in time. Some circumstances beyond my control has been at force😂. I hope we all have a wonderful day. Till tomorrow-byeeeee!

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Most fathers love more to their daughters as compre to their son. In many parts of the world people don't give importance to their daughters they just listen and act accordingly as what their son says. Most of these people are illitrate and they think that only their boys will support them and give good care ti them but it has been seen many times that daughters take much care to their parents.

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I hope we as a species will evolve enough to realize, in terms of brain function, gender doesn't matter at all. Some people are great thinkers and some are great doers.

Great article.

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I don't think so brother that gender quality is big problems. This is like lame excuse. Women and man are having Equal right. In Pakistan women are not allow to do job if family is well established. Because we think that women place is their house. So she should take care if their families and babies. Yeah, here female are more in strength than men in universities.

So it depends upon family. If they are supporting than no need to do job stay at home.

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I believe the narrative will change in our generation

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👏👏👏, women aren't less and we shouldn't be treated as such, I love this article

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This inequality among genders really need to stop cause it saddens the heart of the female most times

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Gender discrimination are unfortunately still a reality. I've never felt I have fewer opportunities in the work or academic field because I'm a woman, but unfortunately it's not like that everywhere and in all cultures. Let's hope this changes in future generations.

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We will definitely raise the bar We shall be victorious Stand tall okay

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You gave him a magnificent answer. Simple and elegant. Girls have as much right as boys. They are the same in every way. Discrimination does not lead to anything good at all.

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3 years ago

So nice to read this one written by a man. Thank you for this

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Even in the family, we still have some father that doesn't like female child because they believe that they can't make it, which is not so.

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Unfortunately gender discrimination impacts millions of girls and boys around the world, every girl and boy deserves an equal chance to survive and thrive.

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Gender equality means providing equal opportunities to both men and women in political, economic, education and health aspects.

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3 years ago

Gender discrimination or gender inequality is something I don't love interfering with because I don't know what we will achieve with. You did a great analysing the points stated, every gender have the perfect opportunity to excel in life regardless of the environment we find ourselves.

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3 years ago

Things are becoming better, things will be better for our girl children. Together we will make a better society from gender discrimination for our girl children.

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3 years ago

we're lucky that nowadays they give importance to gender equality where people can freely express themselves who they are inside

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You are right, there shouldn't be any bias just because of gender. Thankfully, the modern world is changing, albeit slow, but at least it started. I do hope your generation will be a lot better :)

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A child is a child, there shouldn't be restricted for position because they are female, most mothers are also the course though, if a girl is rejected by her father for being a female, I don't think the mother should also reject her daughter too. I think they should also start educating parents too about the girl child.

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It is bad to make one gender feel less human because we are all equal in the eyes of God

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We're lucky to live in a generation where gender equality is a thing. Respect all gender respect all color respect all race. We all can add to our community

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Nowadays most couples are equal already. It's up to them if they treat there selves equal or the husband was higher than the wife

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3 years ago

Must be equal the woman and a man , because we both need in our community

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I'm just gonna one thing, the world is still a longggggggg way to go to achieve equality...

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Boys and girls were equals when they were born. So they should be treated and raised equally until they grow up. It's just saddening that in other cultures and traditions, they respect boys more than girls.

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I am happy that in our place, girls being inferior is slowly being forgotten. Everyone, regardless of the gender/sex are of equal importance.

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I always feel bad when people treat girls less than males. In my country we had for the first time lady judge. I hope the condition will change soon.

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it's good to hear that ladies are already making impact in your country. Hopefully with time the rate will increase

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I'm more than moved and motivated by those sets of Nigerians who made their marks in a place that's very much unfavorable to them like you rightly said. Well then, we learn a lot in seminars and while I was in school back in the days, I did participate much in setting up the center stage for seminar presentations as I valued all within its discuss

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