International Women’s Day: Do Women in Our Society Enjoy the Same Rights as Men?
By, Sherin Catherine, Tehelka, India – Beginning with early childhood up to the present day, the inevitable socialization process had fostered me with various images of an ideal/faultless woman and the instructions regarding how to become one. I remember one of the earliest nursery rhymes I learned in school which said ‘snakes and snails and puppy dog tails, that’s what little boys are made of and sugar and spice and everything that is nice, that’s what little girls are made of’. And most of my storybooks represented boys as fighters, adventurers and rescuers, while girls in their passive role tend to be caretakers, mothers, and princesses in need of rescuing. Girls were always sweet, naive, conforming, and dependent, while boys are typically described as strong, adventurous, independent, and capable.
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