Gender Discrimination: What Offense Did the Male Gender Commit?

Hello, everyone.

_{designed on canva.}

Welcome to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. The discrimination we all suffer today did not start today; it started with Adam. From the very beginning of mankind, we suffered discrimination, but the truth remains that we Africans took it to a higher level.

In most cases, we were made to believe that the education of a woman ends in the kitchen. This affected so many women as their parents gave them little or no support to get educated as it was seen as a waste of money to educate a woman back in the day.

How wives who could not give birth to a male child were treated is also hurtful; no matter how many girls you must have given birth to, your inability to give birth to a male child automatically turns you into a barren woman. All your in-laws will see you as one and make mockery of you at every given opportunity.

To date, discrimination is still the order of the day; it is a stigma that really needs to be addressed. Making one gender feel inferior when compared to the other hurts a lot, and making one gender feel like they deserve to be the ones suffering more than the other is just not the right thing to do.

Therefore, discrimination simply refers to the unequal treatment given to a person or thing based on gender or race. The moment you treat one fairly and the other less fairly for one reason or another, you discriminate.

These days, the female gender has taken it upon themselves to preach gender equality through social media. That's good, and I support that as well. We might be male or female, but we are all humans and should be treated equally. The only job opportunity I had back in 2020 was rejected because I was a male.

In 2020, during the pandemic, many people lost their jobs and were asked to stay home. This made getting a new job impossible as the few companies still functional were asked to maintain social distancing, making them employ only a few staff. On the job hunt, a company posted about a vacancy without specifying if they needed female staff or male staff. I applied and was asked to come for an interview.

I dressed up and went for the interview after the board had asked me lots and lots of questions about why I needed the job and all that. I was hoping for a positive answer until another staff member walked in and whispered in their ears. The next thing they said, was that they were sorry and were actually in search of a female staff member and not a male staff member.

The job I thought I had gotten because I tried my best with the interview was not given to me just because they were in search of a female staff member for reasons best known to them. I left the building with a broken heart, and that's when I felt the pain of being discriminated against.

Thanks for reading my post.