GENDER INEQUALITY: DEVELOPMENT OF A GIRLCHILD IN MASAI COMMUNITY.
The present crusade in Africa today is the creation of a genderless society. A child or adult should not be looked at or judged along gender line whatever the sex. In the following topic we will look at the way a girlchild in masai community of Kenya's Rift valley province was brought up from early childhood and how she was expected to behave in the society. We shall also look at her sexuality and the aspect of inequality between a girl and a boy in the same community.
What is Gender?.
Gender is a term that is used in all societies for the purpose of defining roles between male and female. Unlike sex, gender is neither biological nor permanent. According to Anthony Giddens (1993), "gender is more psychological, social and cultural differences between male and female." As soon as a child is born, you can tell a boy from a girl from the choice of clothing of each child. A baby girl will most likely be clothed in pink while a baby boy will most likely be clothed in light blue.
Early Childhood.
In the African societies a girlchild starts her early education of who she is and how she should behave in the society when she is approximately the age of five years. In masai culture of Kenya's Rift Valley province where I was born and brought up, traditional education of a girlchild was emphasized on even at the age of 3 years. Minor behaviours on how a girl should sit, whom she should play with and what she should play with were taught to her at that tender age. At the age of five, she has already picked the "right habits". This is evidence from the way she imitated what her mother did. The most obvious habits are carrying of dolls, and pretending to breastfeed them. Other habits included pretending to cook, wash clothes and play a nurse. It is around this age that the mother introduced to her simpler duties like drawing water from the river or fetching firewood.
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