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Gender equality: challenges of a world frozen in erroneous masochistic and cultural considerations.

malumiereetmonsalut Par Le 29/03/2023 à 17:04 0

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The construction of a society whose emancipation will not be limited and hindered by retrograde and segregationist attitudes is a long-term task. Indeed, if for the most liberal the change of certain habits and mentalities are always necessary in a process of development, for the most conservative on the other hand, this is not the case because, break up with what is assimilated to a cultural heritage it is no longer respecting tradition and even less contributing to development.

Talking about gender equality is claiming your rights, no more and no less. It is not a question of revolting against the supremacy of a particular genre or of flouting, for example, the hierarchy of our traditional societies. It is about claiming your right to exist as a man, and to be considered as a person who also has an important role to play in a development process.

Complementarity and good performance

The right to have a role to play in society is a privilege that must go beyond gender boundaries to be more effective. This is not about proving that women are better than men. It is a question of valuing complementarity and breaking all forms of discrimination that limit human capacities. The human being is man and woman at the same time; he is not first a man before being a woman. Even if it has been reported to us that man was created before woman that does not mean that the world can be realized without the active participation of the feminine gender and even less that women must strive to take the place of men to show that they are emancipated. If no society should relegate the role of women to a lesser contribution that is limited to the level of the family unit, no reason apart from exacerbated machismo, will justify the right to channel decision-making power only at the level of the male gender. To promote a genre, we don't necessarily need that genre to ask us to do so.  Human acts are sufficient evidence, subject to the judgment of those who have decision-making power.

Gender equality and education of consciences

The birth of conflicts in society as well as in the family is partly linked to a poor conception of equality between men and women. If in some cases it is well understood and allows a harmonious life by a good management of the problems, in others on the other hand, it can very quickly degenerate and become dramatic. Militating in favour of the primacy of the male gender over the female gender does not mean that the head should take the place of the feet, and the feet that of the head. Each individual must stay in their place and respect the authority of the other. It is by adopting responsible attitudes that we guarantee a harmonious life in society without, however, mechanically and radically limiting the capacities of a particular gender. The cultural considerations that tend to brush aside the question of gender equality must be rethought. If the female gender does not have the right to claim a right to which he is not entitled according to a particular cultural context, this does not mean that it should be treated as vulgar merchandise. The right to life implies the right to express oneself freely and to make known one's dissatisfaction. The place of the servant is not limited to only one level. He who has the grace to always be served must know that he has the duty to be himself the first servant who must always listen to everyone and not behave like someone who has all the rights and no duties towards others. Each individual is useful. Although there will always be people who have the grace to be more important than others, no one person is more useful than another in the sense that everything we do must work together for the good of the whole. Even if so-called subsistence agriculture persists, it must still be said that the effort of the peasant does not only allow him to feed his family. Through his activity he responds to a certain demand which is not negligible in the economy of a country. You cannot tell a woman that she is only good at procreating and cooking when you do not have the full measure of the importance of procreation and the culinary arts. We cannot tell her that she is useless when the fruit of her multiple virtues has a positive impact on her offspring. To speak of gender equality is to constantly redefine the terms of this equality in our societies. It means respecting our traditions and seeing how to further value the contribution of each individual in the development process.

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