5/12/2023 0 Comments We should all be feminists![]() ![]() ![]() There are interesting illustrations of a number of instances where she felt that she was treated differently because of her gender. Ngozi, who hails from Nigeria, begins the book with her experiences of gender discrimination that she has been facing right from her childhood. This in short describes the entire theme of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book, We should all be Feminists, in her own words. My own definition of a feminist is a man or a woman who says, ‘Yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better.'” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie In most of what I have read so far on gender inequality, men have always been portrayed as an inherently bad species. Having witnessed such practices has deeply disturbed me. ![]() ![]() Gender discrimination, from where I come from, is reflected through various systematic practices and traditions. It has been a long journey through human civilisation and I feel it is time to reconstruct the gender equations by changing our perception. Patriarchy has become a pervasive phenomenon subtly inducing the idea of gendered power. Its control over people transcends region, culture, ethnicity, religion, race, caste or class. ‘We should all be feminists’ needs a place on the curriculum if we want to free children from the prisons of gender expectations, says Shivani Das.Īs a young woman, it still boggles my mind to think how patriarchy is so ingrained in the minds of the people that this deep-rooted prejudice has become normal. ![]()
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