Gender Equality Workshops Given in the Dorm

Last week, KIS boarding students had gender equality workshops in our dorm floors. The purpose was to think about our daily lives regarding our behaviors and gender inequality in the school. I thought it was interesting because the event was to celebrate the International Women's Day. The discussion on our floor started with my question that I think the base of inequality starts with having no International Men's Day. Does it not? After few minutes of conversation about equality, all my beliefs and doubts boiled down to one fact that there really couldn't be any equality. From the beginning of human evolution, men have hunted and women have made families and took care of kids. I am not saying that this form of family has to be how we live today. But what I understand is that men without abilities and power to support a family, could not survive. The way men and women have different gender roles, is shaped by thousands of years of natural selection in which the fittest to the environment survives. That is the balance and natural tendency we have gained due to difference in bone structure, muscle composition, reproductive system and endocrine cadence. These are differences between two genders we ought not to ignore. I do doubt that 50 push ups for a female student would help that student to learn without getting upset and injured from overwhelming physical activity. Developed from this notion, I also highly doubt that what people consider as equality, might exactly mean what they think they have tried to meant. There are certain differences that both genders need to agree and understand. Differences are differences not wrongs and rights. Because true equality regarding the basic understanding of both genders, can be rendered only after they are seen and treated differently, I do believe that true equality may be seamless from what can seem unjust. However, to consider more of the reality, the problem of the issue is discrimination, not differentiation.