Durbin: Ignorance breeds gender inequalities
Women, men are capable of same things.
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Being sexually frustrated is a common occurrence in college. We all go through it.
I, too, am sexually frustrated, but I don’t mean that in the sense of not getting any from the honey on the third floor.
I simply mean that I’m frustrated with the sexes, males vs. females. Why must we continue to live in a society where equality between men and women is lacking?
It’s 2008 already. Let’s get on this.
Being a girl who makes her living at an electronic store has been challenging. It’s not because I struggle with learning new technology or soldering a wire to a circuit board.
It’s because I am a female.
My expertise and my honest suggestions often get rejected based on my sex.
Many times I am passed up or simply ignored. Other times, customers tell me that they wish to speak with a male associate. I comply with those customers’ desires, and I simply keep my opinions to myself, questioning the true sense of equality between men and women.
Last week, I was riding the bus to Park and Ride, (I had happened to leave my iPod at home), and I overheard a conversation taking place in front of me between two males.
It’s more about calling attention to an idea: Men and women are both capable of accomplishment in this word.
I am not one for eavesdropping, but overhearing this conversation was an insult.
The two males were discussing how women should not be allowed to teach math or English, because as women, they are not knowledgeable in either subject.
I was offended and slightly dumbfounded at this belief because it’s absolutely not true.
A study reported in the American Psychological Society Journal in 2000 found that women outperform men in both math and science by almost 12 percent.
This article was not intended to rattle off statistics from a psychological journal or to be a ragging feminist.
It’s more about calling attention to an idea: Men and women are both capable of accomplishment in this word.
If the gender divide continues to prevent women from performing, accomplishing, teaching or making suggestions, then society is hindered and biased.
Inequality is something society has created.
We must now revert to equality.
Durbin is a Hays junior in journalism and English.
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