being a housewife is a bad thing. It is in fact an important role in society. What I mean is that girls need to know that they can be more than what they believe they are.
Among my friends, mostly boys had high self-esteem. The girls on the other hand, didn’ t believe in their potential. In addition, I noticed that boys grew up surrounded
by famous masculine figures as inspiration. This is because in schools, men are mainly the principal references in all school books. I wondered: Where are the women in the books? Why are they not mentioned? What are the effects of this on girls? We rarely study women in schools. The worst part is knowing that there are many great historical female figures. They should be in our school books in order to inspire girls of our generation to believe in themselves. However, nowadays, the situation remains the same.
A research made by a scientific journal called Science showed that children between 5 and 7 years old think that men are smarter than women. Besides that, psychologist Luis Saraiva from the Psychology
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