Yesterday as Yoko and I Hosted the Midday Express I learnt a
very valuable lesson from a caller - An approach to take as we are raising our
children if we want to achieve gender
parity by 2030.We as women spend most of the time with the children as they
are growing up, we socialize them into becoming the best people as best as we
can as they grow up, we nature them ,we teach them manners, right from wrong
and as we're doing this the superlative thing we can do is inculcate the lessons of
equality, give the boy and girl equal chores ,encourage each one to pursue dreams
equally, so that as they grow up they know that
gender equality is pertinent to have a better world and each one can have
equal opportunities . From an early age, girls learn that they are not expected by
society to become scientists, engineers, innovators, or leaders. As a result,
women are drastically underrepresented in leadership positions as well as the
STEM (Science,Technology ,Engineering and Math) fields.We have to stop perpetuating the myth of gender roles
entirely as mothers to achieve gender parity,and that means helping our
children- boys and girls to overcome the stifling confines of societal
dictations of what to do and what not to do. I hope that
girls will be prepared for the same roles as boys in any industry, be it science and engineering,
or nursing and teaching. And I hope that boys will be prepared for the same
roles as girls in terms or career pursuance .I hope that anyone of either sex
would be able to aspire to the same goal, to the same role models for gender
equality to happen. Let us integrate these lessons in our kids. This is the lesson all mothers-my peers and those that are
intending to be mothers should learn.We need to correct this gender imbalance that we have now by
sowing into the future that’s how we
will achieve planet 50:50 by 2030.
