Change Magazine September 2017 Issue | Page 18

being a housewife is a bad thing . It is in fact an important role in society . What I mean is that girls need to know that they can be more than what they believe they are .
Among my friends , mostly boys had high self-esteem . The girls on the other hand , didn ’ t believe in their potential . In addition , I noticed that boys grew up surrounded
by famous masculine figures as inspiration . This is because in schools , men are mainly the principal references in all school books . I wondered : Where are the women in the books ? Why are they not mentioned ? What are the effects of this on girls ? We rarely study women in schools . The worst part is knowing that there are many great historical female figures . They should be in our school books in order to inspire girls of our generation to believe in themselves . However , nowadays , the situation remains the same .
A research made by a scientific journal called Science showed that children between 5 and 7 years old think that men are smarter than women . Besides that , psychologist Luis Saraiva from the Psychology
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