By Silvana S. Hundreds of years ago, there was a village inhabited by one girl and one boy. The boy said, “for no good reason I’m going to treat you like you’re inferior. If someone becomes King and they have two kids, a girl and a boy, even though the girl is older the boy will be king. Because according to my sexist opinion, women can’t lead. Oh and I’m going to marry you off to some man where your only purpose will be to cook and clean. You won’t have rights. And I will be your boss because I have muscle. And some other dumb reason like that.” And that is how sexism began. Sexism. What is sexism? Discrimination against women. Viewing them as inferior to males and not able to have their own rights. I know for a fact that even though the middle ages, renaissance and the steam-age are over, even the twenty-first century has same problems. Let’s say that boy told the girl that, “Even though you work just as hard or even harder than me, you will always be only paid a mere 78.6 cents for every dollar of what us men make.” (That’s the fulltime Gender Pay Gap according to the Canadian Women's Foundation). It’s still a HUGE issue today. You might say, “oh Silvana, how is a pitiful 21 cents so important.” Well, let’s say a man makes $1 million from being a successful real estate agent. A woman who does the same amount of work will only make $786,000t. Huh, I wonder if a $214,000 difference is a lot? IT IS! Out of the top 20 richest people in the world, only one is a woman: Alice Walton. And she is only the 9th most wealthiest person on earth, not the first. That is a huge difference. Now let’s say that man said, “All women must take their husband's last name and when they have kids, even if they give birth to that human, it will take the husband's last name.” It’s true. In our North American worldview, a lot of women see it as ‘tradition’ to take their husband's last name. With the exception of hyphenations, even if the woman keeps her own last name, if they have kids, odds are that the child will take the man’s last name. Well, the man wasn’t overly cautious and didn’t walk around pregnant for nine months and then go into labour. That is unfair. On Tuesday, March 8th, 2022, it is International Women's Day. It's the international day to remember and celebrate women and girls' hard work in everyday life. It’s also to help spread awareness about the fact that gender inequality is still here. And to help work together to put a stop to it
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