Awareness arena1

 

Efeti's dream is to be an automotive engineer but her parents and society feel she is not suited for the job. What is expected of her is to study hard and find a job that best suits a 'Girl'.

Chi on the other hand wants be a make-up artist but his parents would not have it, as their dream for him, is to be a medical doctor.

These stories are not uncommon!


Gender stereotypes directly affects individual expression and limits access to opportunities. This mostly begins from the home and branches off to the society- where opportunities, knowledge, and resources are open to one gender and restricted to the other.

Fortunately, more people are becoming aware of this menace and the danger it poses to development in society as it constrains choices, and negatively affects people’s ability to participate in, contribute to and benefit from social, political, and economic development.

 

We can win this fight if we only speak out.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

BUEA YOUTHS AND CYBERCRIME AT THE URGe

          Cybercrime  is a whole network of criminal activities done, using the internet. As wide as the internet spreads, 80% percent of its coverage has little or no security because it appears a different world on its own, without any rulers.  Criminal offences go as far as child trafficking, illicit drug trafficking, spread of pornographic content, email interception, impersonation, cheating, falsification, forgery and fraudulent representation of facts. The ‘Yahoo-Yahoo’ business, formally known as cyber fraud in Cameroon’s cybercrime law, is not a new phenomenon in the country. The illicit business, mostly perpetrated by young men and sometimes women, is an offshoot of the so-called ‘419’ business of the 1980s and 1990s. The 419 code is derived from a section of Nigeria’s Criminal Act Section 419 (Advance Free Fraud) which frowns at obtaining money from people through impersonation, cheating, falsification, counterfeiting, forgery and fraudulent ...
Read more

Awareness arena 2

Image
Peace is the most talked about agenda in the world today. People rather prepare for the cure and reconstruction measures after conflicts, rather than the preventive measures to conflict. The world would have been much safer and beautiful if we would let go our ego, exercise tolerance, listen more, embark on retreats and meditation, above all, silence our weapons.            However, in the world today much is expected from youths in the society. They hold majority of the population of almost all countries in the world, as such, we (youths) are expected to preach peace, shape peace, and practice peace.   Should there be a better time to preach peace when we live in times where peace is almost impossible to talk about, injustice prevails, no freedom of speech, uneven distribution of wealth, where racism and discrimination is at it's peak? Yes! It is possible for the world to be much more better than it is today. It might be a gradual process of materiali...
Read more