Saludos queridas Damas, esta es mi participación en el concurso comunitario 93, el cual trae una pregunta muy interesante acerca de los cambios de actitud frente a las mujeres en mi vida, esto es algo que prendí desde muy temprano, notando las diferencias de trato hacia los hombre y mujeres. Me gustaría invitar a participar a @suezoe @Yetsimar
Greetings dear Ladies, this is my participation in the community contest 93, which brings a very interesting question about the changes in attitude towards women in my life, this is something that I learned very early, noticing the differences in treatment towards the men and women. I would like to invite @suezoe @Yetsimar to participate
¿ Cuándo empezaste a ver cambios en las actitudes hacia las mujeres en tu vida y qué crees que provocó esos cambios? Por favor, da algunos ejemplos.
When did you begin to see attitudes towards women changing in your life, and what do you think prompted those changes? Please give some examples.
I come from a family that is mostly women, especially on my mother's side, but in my house it was just me and my sister in addition to my mother and father, my father was previously a widower and that is why I also have 3 sisters and a brother, these were older when I was born, my dad had a workshop where Luther worked making musical instruments, the first time I noticed a tooth treatment towards me was when I was a child I went to my dad's workshop and tried to learn about wood and of his tools, my dad let me do it but he often told me that some things were too "hard" for me, what I noticed is that none of my sisters learned my dad's trade, only my brother learned it, so every time that I said I wanted to learn to work with wood they did not take it seriously, unfortunately my father was never able to teach me and I started a university career in another direction, I think that although my father never told me directly there was an unwritten rule ta of the gender stereotype in which women cannot do trades such as lutherie or carpentry, which for me that idea is out of place, fortunately I learned many things and I am a woman who is not afraid to work with wood, hammers , nails, handsaw, manual brushes, tongs, pliers and among other tools, even though I haven't learned my dad's job.
Likewise, when I was in secondary school I also faced some absurd stereotypes, I studied in a private school that was strongly Catholic, there the director was very strict with the dress code and hairstyle of his students, boys were not allowed to have a little long hair, they should only have it very short and at no time should they use gel in their hair, when the director saw a man using gel in his hair he confronted him and asked the student if he was gay, obviously I'm using the word gay to not use the horrible word that the director used, this happened and the director went into the bathroom with the boys and washed their hair with water in the sink and forced them to comb their hair "like a man should", I I could not believe that machismo was so great in that school that even the boys themselves did not have freedom, at that time I also had many problems due to the gender stereotype marked on the hair and also ein racism, I have naturally curly hair and it is abundant and difficult to control for someone who, like me, never had help from my family to know how to treat curly hair, there was even a teacher who called my curly hair a horrible name in the same school, so one day I just cut my hair very short, it was practically a shaved head, it was only about 2cm in the longest part of my hair, I used gel and went to school.
I noticed that the director of the school was looking at me with a bad face, but he could not tell me anything, there was no rule that forced female students to have long hair, his argument for the men was that if they used gel then they were gay, so it didn't even make sense for me as a woman to be confronted with that argument and forbid me to gel my short hair so i spent my senior years of high school with spiked hair on my head some people told me it looked like a "macho" and there was even a classmate who asked me "why don't you wear your hair like a woman", believe me I couldn't believe that a girl of about 16 like her believed that a woman should have long hair to be a woman.
On the other hand, at that same time I entered to study in the system of youth orchestras that worked in the house of culture of my city, I wanted to study percussion and I started and was part of the orchestra after a while, the thing is that it was the only female in the entire group of percussionists, this resonated in my head because when I registered, the director looked me in the eye and asked me why I wanted to study percussion, I told him that I liked percussion and that was all, when I was in the orchestra I understood that the stereotype is that girls go to study violin, oboe, clarinet, cello, but there are no girls who choose percussion, that's been about 18 years now and I'm almost sure that if I go there shouldn't be no girls studying percussion there, but at least in the rest of the country and the world things are changing, there is a strong joy in my heart every time I see a girl in a band doing the percussion.
I think there is still a long way to go for women and many doors to open, not necessarily in the workplace but in everyday life, activities such as school, hobbies and even appearance and care should not be limited to stereotypes, There is still a lot to change, because there are people who still consider a woman without hair funny, consider a female automotive engineer inefficient or who think that a male dentist can pull a tooth faster than a woman of the same profession 🤦♀️. We must continue fighting to treat boys and girls equally and that they have equal opportunities in life to do what they want without being prevented by stereotypes.
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I hope you liked it. I invite you to read my next publications and I will always be willing to answer your questions and comments, you can also follow me and contact me on any of my social networks. Thank you!