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I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the hive learners featured post. Since the advancement of our world, one of the things many people especially women have made the order of the day is the fight for gender equality, they want a world where women will be treated same way a man is being treated, they want a world where a woman can be given the role of a man and allowed to play it, many are fighting and won't stop until they get the world where women can be trusted with the duties of a man but they fail to ask themselves a simple question, can a woman really play the role of a man? Can a woman comfortably carry out a man's duty without messing things up?
They fight to be treated same way a man is treated or seen to be able to handle what a man can handle but when bills are presented they hide in their shells and don't want anything to do with it, people that wants gender equality but still wants to be taken care of by a man and claim that their money is their money (they personalise their every belongings) while the man's money is everybody's money (they generalise the man's belongings). If a man should personalise his belongings he will be considered stingy and not a giver as if it is only man that should be givers.
People always confuse gender equality and gender equity whereas they both different things entirely, gender equity is knowing the capabilities of each gender and not given them roles that they cannot play even the bible made it clear that women are weaker vessels and with that we know where to put them, we know what to ask if then and what not to, we know what they can do and what they cannot do. A typical example of where I have seen gender equity practiced is at a construction site where men were asked to mix cement with sand and gravel while the woman was asked to be in the kitchen cooking for the men.
While gender equality is a fight to be treated equally forgetting that the handwriting on the wall is already bold.
From the explanation above we can see exactly what gender equity means, in marriages or relationships it means that both parties (husband and wife) will have to make their contributions according to their capabilities but welcome to Nigeria where 95% of women have the mentality I stated earlier where they personalise their belongings and generalise the man's every belonging, so how do you expect a person who is self centered and only thinks about themselves to contribute their own quota?
It becomes an issue especially if the man is one that does not support the type of parasitic relationship and marriage many Nigerian woman want, for this reason many Nigerian men don't practice gender equity as they just go ahead and be the sole provider without expecting any form of support from who they call a partner as anytime that is presented it becomes an issue so they just do everything single handedly.
Comments (2)
Exactly, you are one of the few people I have read their post today that is able to distinguish between gender equity and gender equality, most people get confused when it comes to differentiating between both terms.
In a natural setting, gender equality is a wild notion because both gender have different qualities which would affect the way we react and be treated in the society but you see gender equity is more achievable though people wouldn't agree to the notion especially the female gender because it creates provision for creating opportunities for both gender based on individual differences which consists of strength and weaknesses.
Many will not want to support your last paragraph though but it's the truth.