Descrimination of Girl Who Live in The Village
Richard (1994: 561) states that gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity.
Based on my observation in the village. Girls who live in the village do not have high education. Most of girls who live in the village graduated from elementary school and the highest education is senior high school. I have ever heard an old woman said to her daughter like this: “What for you go to school if at the end you go back to the kitchen. It may be needed to go to school if you are boy and you should get the best education for your future because the men have to catch the good job not only for themselve but also for their family”.
It means that girls to fullfill the roles of good wives and mother. They were also to impose an ideal family form in which a male acts as a breadwinner and a woman as an economically dependents, full time wife and mother. The view that women were different from men not only biologically but socially, intelectually and psychologically.
I think it is unfair for girls who live in the village because most of girls who live in the village just have low education. Although, in the fact many women success in their job after they got education.
When I was senior high school, I have a bestfriend. Her name is Nia. She was the smartest student in my class. She always got scholarship so she could school until senior high school. She live in the village. She came from able family but her mother banned her to continue school in the University. She tought that every girls who school at the end she must go back to the kitchen. So my friend did not continue her school. Whereas she want to be a teacher.
At the end, the discrimination between men and women who live in the village has happened since a long time ago and still happen nowadays. The descrimination happened because the parents who live in the village got low education so they do not understand how is the important of education.
References
Udry, J. Richard. 1994. The Nature of Gender. Jakarta.
Suharno. 2007. Introduction to English Literature. Jakarta: Universitas Terbuka
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