How did Gender relate to me?

Before I took this course, I didn’t have lots of thought about “gender”, The first time I observe Gender was during primary school in China, I found that girls’ grades are always better than boys, more interesting, most of the boys are good at mathematics and science department, and girls did great job in literature, poetry. As a member of the female gender, I did a survey on it; the result was the same as I said. After reading through this chapter, I found some surveys in this book were very familiar with my research in primary school.

In Canada, people see genders as equal to each other; In Chinese culture, many people see it in different ways, male’s value is over females; Fortunately, my family is very wise about this, they see male and female as equal; I think people shouldn’t judge someone through their gender, the inequality will cause many social problems. There is no exactly definition of the male and female distinction. In 20^th century, most of the female were housewives and take care of the children, there were even some expectations about how a woman should look, act and behave and what she should want; with the change of decades, women became much more independent and more importantly, we have a voice. I wanted to be an independent woman in the future; I can decide for myself.

Another interesting that happens to me is that I have more male friends than female friends; I think males give people a feeling of safety and responsibility.

Overall, as a female, I am very proud and I am very interested in finding the differences of the genders.