diary entry on helplessness being a girl child
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Monday
March 13, 2017
10: 30 p.m.
Dear Diary:
I am very sad today! I have been feeling this discrimination between boys and girls for a long time. Not a day goes without making me feel this discrimination. Why is it so girls are considered inferior to boys? Why don’t they enjoy equal freedom to boys? My brother is allowed to go out even after dark; but I am not allowed to go out even during the bright sunlight! The truth is I work harder than him. Nobody praises me much even for my brilliance in academics. His moderate achievements become the talk of the family! Why is it that I have to lend a helping hand to my mother in the kitchen and other chores? Why does my mother not ask him to share the household responsibility? Though I am younger than him, still I do more work than him! My parents appear to be worried about my wedding! I want to study and want to become a successful scientist. When I share it with my parents they just downplay it. Why am I made to feel as if I am helpless? The truth is I am not. I am very strong and capable.
10:00 p.m.
Today is the worst day of my life as I never imagined that my own parents would interfere in my plans for further education after class twelfth. Today, I wanted to fill in form for IIT JEE, but my father thought and being a girl I can't become an engineer. I have to be some teacher or ... Till when these stereotype notions will infect our society and girls like me will have to face discrimination! I fear people like dad won't change even in next fifty years.
I don't understand what goes on in the mind of my father to have such ideas. I just feel helpless as there is no one who can convince him. I would try to take him to our Career Counselor, may be she will be able to change his attitude towards jobs I can take as a girl.
I would also talk to mom as she is more flexible and may be she will be able to get my dad's consent to fill in for the entrance exams I want to take.