It all depends on how we raise our boys
If you think that your daughter, even if she is only five years old, has a future of happiness, new possibilities and safety from sexual harassment, you are wrong. You will have to wait six more generations, approximately 132 years estimated by the World Economic Forum Gender Gap report. She has better chances in Bangladesh – ranked 71/146 to India’s 135/146. In the meantime, you can be happy that fewer girls are killed at birth, only 46 million women (2020 UNFPA data) rather than 65 million women are missing and there are only 223 million child brides in India (2019 report UN Children’s Fund).
A mindset problem: While good policies will continue to change girls’ access to healthcare, education and jobs slowly, the biggest danger to the survival and thriving of girls is in our minds. Unless we change how we think about boys, girls’ lives are endangered by us, including the highly educated middle and upper classes. We are the biggest danger to girls.
A mindset problem: While good policies will continue to change girls’ access to healthcare, education and jobs slowly, the biggest danger to the survival and thriving of girls is in our minds. Unless we change how we think about boys, girls’ lives are endangered by us, including the highly educated middle and upper classes. We are the biggest danger to girls.