Differences Between Genders

Which adjectives would you use to describe men? Which adjectives would you use to describe women? The difference between genders goes beyond the biological and physicological barriers. Today society has many stereotypes that have been perpetuated through generations, while other stereotypes have been changed.

In the article “Pink vs blue – are children born with gender preferences?” by Polly Curtis from the Guardia it is possible to see that many aspects about the difference between genders are easily explained by science, while other aspects are only understood by the study of stereotypes and its origins.

Stereotypes are within each culture, but the man playing as the leader of the family is most common. This means that the man has to hide his emotions, and showing some sort of feeling is an unacceptable behavior for the man. On the another hand, the woman has to be emotional, and is waiting for her to always be fragile. These are some examples of stereotypes that exist in todays society that were perpetuated through many generations. For example, if a girl is often playing a “boy's game”, or a boy often plays a “girl's game” their parents are the first ones to manifest a negative behavior motivated by the stereotypes that exist todays in society.

Some stereotypes are closed to their own beliefs of the culture. It is important because every society needs principles, and these principles are maintained by the existence of good stereotypes. For example, the figure of family composed by a woman and a man is essential to the perpetuation of mankind, because it's impossible for a couple of men or a couple of women to generate any children by themselves.

There are many positive stereotypes, there are also many negative stereotypes. The difference between genders in todays society exists and always will exist. The problem is when those differences make separation between them, putting a man or woman as superior this can cause prejudices and conflicts.

Educational Style

What is the limit to say if a person is intelligent or not? Is grade school the best parameter to classify the intellectual capacity of a person? The history shows that notable people in their adult life, were considered as not smart in their academical life. The current educational process is too general, and does not work to everybody. In the article “Lisa Ling: What I learned as an average student” by Lisa Ling, is possible to see how is hard for a student that does not has the characteristics that the society looks for.

Known around the world for his excellent job in physics field, Albert Einstein was considered no intelligent enough to get a chair in the Switzerland Polytechnic School. Years later him became the most famous physics scientist with the relative law and another notorious contributions. Unfortunately, schools and universities treat all students with the same model of education giving not space for individuality, those who do not fit its model is classified as not intelligent. Each person has different abilities and capacities, with personal learning style. For example, there are people that can not learn math through conventional ways, but gets it listening music.

The way that parents educate their children is a consequence of educational process, to try warranty their academical success, parents are early enrolling their kids in many activities causing an overloading which is embarrassing them and their better development. “These days as parents, we've become obsessed with paving our children's way toward success. We track their every move; we want them to go to the best schools; we enroll them in programs designed to make them play sports, play music...But I hope we take the time to allow them to figure out what THEY like, what drives THEM”, said Ling.

Intelligence is subjective and has to be treated as so, there is no only one meaning. The current educational style is over-pasted and need to be updated for a more sensitive method, capable to offer the tools for a better self development.

Brazilian's Poll

It is happening this Sunday the Brazilian's poll to choose the president. The next president is already unknown, but surveys indicate that the two women Dilma Rousseff (actual president) and Marina Silva have the preference of the Brazilian population. In the article “Brazil's next President looks sure to be a woman” by Ben Brumfield and Shasta Darlington, CNN is possible to see that this election is going to be very disputed. “But neither Silva nor Rousseff are projected to garner a majority, setting the stage for a runoff between the top two candidates” said Brumfield.

Both candidates have an interesting participation in the political history of Brazil. Dilma Rousseff fought against the military dictatorship, she fought for democracy in Brazil, and she went to the prison for a period of time. Years later Rousseff won the presidential election and became the first president woman in Brazil. Before of Rousseff being president, she works as a chief of staff in the president Lula government, and guided important projects that have impacted positively the Brazilian's life. Marina Silva also has an interesting story life, she grew up in a poor family in the Amazonas state. Silva tried hunger and some disease like malaria and hepatitis in her youth. Silva begun her politics career helping Chico Mendes in the fight against illegal logging, years late she became a senator, and after an environmental minister in Lula's government.

I do not know who will be the next president of Brazil, but I hope that the winner can be able to bring better solutions to Brazilian's life, problems like corruption need to be solved.