I read today that this above magnet is a best-seller among middle-school girls in America.
I mean, really America?
You know, I'm sure the Western media has the masses convinced that the Chinese massacre girls because of severe gender discrimination in our country. Here in Chicago, too many times have I been asked, by fairly intelligent and educated people no less, whether my family hates me because I am a girl under the One-Child Policy. Once, someone even asked me whether they contemplated aborting/killing me once the ultrasound revealed my gender as a fetus.
Then, I see the slogan in this magnet, which is apparently thought to be competely normal. It just flabbergasts me how much gender-stereotyping exists in this supposedly "advanced" society. When I was growing up, nobody EVER told me that my gender restricted my life choices or what I should be good at. Being a housewife, or depending economically on my husband in any way, was unthinkable. If anything, I spent two or three hours a day on Math Olympiad from 3rd grade onwards, and beat all the boys (although sadly, those days are gone forever).
Obviously, there are female maths geniuses in the US, and there are plenty of good-for-nothing housewives in China, but it helps to question sometimes: which place really has the more deeply ingrained gender stereotypes?
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