Gender discrimination is one of the major problems the world is facing today, and most times it is the females that are being discriminated against, I’m glad that it has reduced in this generation. Back then, the rate of gender inequality is very wide.
Even in this generation, we can not say that gender discrimination has finally been solved and as much as some people Females mostly are fighting for gender inequality, it still exists. I have seen cases where gender discrimination was been played and I have also experienced it.
I have been a victim of gender discrimination when I was still in secondary school, JSS3 to be precise, I was a lover of science and technology, so of course I was a member of the Jets clubs (Junior Engineers, Technicians, and Scientists) a club to promote people who are interested in science and creativity. I love it, I was fervent, and I was in a contest to be chosen as the president of the Jets club.
Everything was going fine, I had support from students and even teachers. I was well assured that everything would work out just fine. To my surprise, it didn’t but it should have.
I realized everything when I was called by my BST (Basic science and technology) teacher. He said I should step down to let Olamide, ola for short be the president while I’ll be the assistant or vice or whatever you can call it..
I asked if there is anything I had done wrong that made me deserve to be an assistant, He said nothing, that it just feels right that a boy should be the president.
He said, they never thought that they would find a boy that would at least be competent to hold the position, because none of them were as serious and they were comfortable with me being the president but not until they noticed Ola was fair.
I told him that it doesn’t matter that I could be the president while Ola can assist and I promised I would do well. But he said. I could remember vividly, he said “Jets club is more of a ‘boy thing’ and you will be great as an assistant.”
“Boy thing” huh? I was hurt. I was sincerely hurt. I accepted the position as an assistant, I was not happy with it but I still strive to do my best because Ola wasn’t doing much, he was reluctant. I also started to dislike the teacher.
But as time passed, I started feeling reluctant too. I didn’t want to be one who put in the effort because I wasn’t selected as the president.
What I learned from this, is that no matter what others say or picture you to be, you have to prove them right or wrong. You can’t let someone else demotivate you.
This is what I did. I didn’t show him that he was wrong and I was the perfect one for the position. Instead, with time, I showed him that he was right. Till today, I still regretted not showing him the power of a female.
So now, I have learned that any place I find myself in and it turns out that females are not qualified, I will try to prove to them that females are.
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠..
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