We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Feminism & Feminist Theory
ISBN: 9780008115272
Google: 70vRAwAAQBAJ
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Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2014-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Boys and girls are undeniably different biologically, but socialization exaggerates the differences, and then starts a self-fulfilling process. Take cooking, for example. Today, women in general are more likely to do housework than men – cooking and cleaning. But why is that? Is it because women are born with a cooking gene or because over the years they have been socialized to see cooking as their role? I was going to say that perhaps women are born with a cooking gene until I remembered that the majority of famous cooks in the world – who are given the fancy title of ‘chef’ – are men.

I used to look at my grandmother, a brilliant woman, and wonder what she would have been if she’d had the same opportunities as men during her youth. Today, there are more opportunities for women than there were during my grandmother’s time, because of changes in policy and law, which are very important.

But what matters even more is our attitude, our mindset.

What if, in raising children, we focus on ability instead of gender? What if we focus on interest instead of gender?

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