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The Myth of Equality as it relates to Parenting

The Myth of Equality as it relates to Parenting

In an Age full of endless facades and distortions of truth blindly brought into the one that takes preeminence is 'Gender Equality.'

With it voiced and widely publicised how there is equality between the sexes. The insidious aspect of this is sexism not being blatantly apparent as it once was but always subtle and cloaked by the impression of equality making it worse and harder to counter.

The surreal side is many women buy into this as fact.

As a teacher, I can give you the obvious example of a workforce of predominantly 75% being female but only 25% being in headteacher roles. It goes further when you look at women in the position of governing positions. In Australia where I am currently teaching only 29% are Principals.

If you look at all professions the stand out is still the dominance of males in supervisory and head management roles. In Government, it stands out like dogs balls as the makeup of governance in the USA in 2015 depicts- only 19.3% of the House of Representatives were female with 20% of the Senate

The other great divide exemplifying gender inequality is the gulf between the incomes of women as opposed to men.

The Myth of Equality as it relates to Parenting


If you were to take a cynical ( realistic?) stance, you would state society is still the Gerontocracy from Plato days, manipulated and ruled by ageing men.

I have brought this into my role as a Father to two daughters, with my ex-wife and I making a vow to tell our daughters 'how it really is'

The Myth of Equality as it relates to Parenting

The crux of this is educating them to the fact that inequality towards women is still rampant and how they need to be very aware of this. We never preached fluff about fairness, only ever about a reality surrounding the need to be very conscious of the bias to deal with it.

We took this into their social upbringing preaching 'you are woman; you are strong'. Underpinning this with extolling the need to be empowered by independence by relying on self and having men on their terms. Underpinning this by preaching a lack of trust in males predominant intentions and always allowing actions to speak rather than words. Always being respectful towards lads as well as being wary by thinking most are sheep dressed as wolves.

Culminating in the embrace of repercussions for actions. Never accepting any type of rubbish and to always set the line in the sand that they know never to approach, let alone step over

If they do, no beg pardons, straight out the door.

The proof in the pudding is both my daughters are vibrant professionally, one a graphic designer and the other currently backpacking Asia on a sabbatical from Accounting studies. One in a euphoric relationship, the other still seeking out a man she wants to be with.

Despite the success stories many have queried our parenting by viewing it as too cynical.

Bringing up the conundrum of whether cynicism as you perceive the reality of the World your children are growing up in should be the basis of parenting or take an idealistic standpoint. By looking through rose colour glasses by preaching 'Disney' like realities where all intentions are honourable and opportunities never having underlying conditions attached.

Particularly when looking at how tough it is for young women growing up both socially and professionally in this World

The Myth of Equality as it relates to Parenting
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