Gender equality. Does it deminish the differences between sexes?
It's a popular topic nowadays. Actually i was the one in my city to initiate a project in the south of Moldova, Gagauzian autonomy, Vulcanesti city. Where we have a greate dimension of traditional education in the local families.
Our team tried to teach shcolars a balanced approach on gender equality. Our manager was from France and she told us one day: "In my country i could do all the hard work by myself and stand in public transport when i wanted to, but when i came here, my friends and their relatives don't allow me to carry something hard. That's why i feel deprived sometimes, but at the same time i understand that it's the way they show respect to me as for a women."
Even our society is old-fashioned and doesn't perceive this gender equality in all the spheres of life, some "good" examples our men took from this idea. For example, when you go by bus you can hear a man talking "why this wife went to police because her husband beats her? Can't she just go thrue it and forget? That was wrong how she deed with her husband!" or if a sick women stands in public transport young and progressive man say "oh, it's now equality in our society, let her stand up and savurate this equality". Another bright example is the case when man is having a weekend (or doesn't work at all) and his wife carries huge bags from shop every day, she takes care of kids and works hard in office. What a dream, now she can demonstrate how strong she is and work hard as a man, but she should not forget about her role as a women.
After all this happened in our society, i feel that man sometimes take too much profit from gender equality.
The way we taught our students is that not only we should care about equal possibilities for each person, independant from gender, we also should keep in mind the beautiful and unique differences we have in physical structure, way of thinking and how well we should organise our cooperation to complete each other and support where we have the need. Of course, usually wemen need help in physical efforts (their reproductive system can suffer from exсcecive burden) and men need emotional support. This can differ sometimes depending on individuality, but most of times this unique features of gender should be taken into account to avoid this abuses.