Gender differences appears because people tend to treat girls and boys differently since birth. Although in the last decades this hotly debated issue has become less and less important in other civilized countries, in Romania this is a problem we are facing. but why exactly, even after all this time, haven't we changed our minds? What is the cause that still makes us treat girls and boys differently and why does it concerns all of us?
On one hand, gender differences has never been a problem that has completely disappeared. Even after one hundred years, we raise our kids with different values and lifestyles. This happens because some parents, as many other people, believe in stereotypes. Firstly, they consider that girls are more fragile and they should do less physical work, while they have the idea that boys need to be strong and have more authority. This normally happens in the rural areas, where parents treat the kids differently and have that very old idea that these inequalities have to exist between the children, ideas that are out-dated and they do not apply to the advanced society in the urban areas. Moreover, in some situations, Romanian parents even think that girls do not require a good education, whereas the boys have to attend school. These things teaches children even from a young age that there should always be differences between girls and boys. Moreover, this gender gap happens not only at home, but at school or in the workplace. This is also a result of the fact that sometimes harder jobs are given to men, while women are considered incapable of taking care of them. Usually this event happens because of the mentality and we can do nothing to change it.
On the other hand, people say that these gender differences are something that should not exist anymore. In advanced countries, these stereotypes stay at the base foundationof gender differences. This is something that was a problem one hundred years ago, but nowadays, when we have advanced so much, the difference between the way we treat women and men should not be existent and, by each day, this gap is getting smaller. For example, while some time ago women did not had havethe right to take part in gouverment , now at least half of the politicians are female. Moreover, these days many things from inour daily life are meant to be used by both genders, from clothing to everyday things that we use.
In conclusion, while some people say that gender differences do not influence [u]the [/u]society and a person lifestyle, others think they are just some stereotypes that we do not need to consider in today modern world.
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