GENDER EQUALITY AS A BONE OF CONTENTION BETWEEN BOTH GENDERS

This topic for an argument is as null and void, in my opinion, as some other topics that we would debate over in school examples of which includes ‘boys are better than girls’, ‘farmers are better and doctors’, etc.

In an argument like ‘farmers are better than doctors’, what differentiation are we trying to make between the farmers and the doctors? With what do we intend to raise the status of the farmers over the doctors? The farmers have their role to play and a contribution to make in the development process just like the doctors, at some point some of these roles are the same while at other points the differ from one another. Both personalities are needed and we really can’t do with just one of them without the other- the doctors to cater for our health and the farmer to help in producing food for the increasing population alongside other civic duties.

Similarly, both genders have their role to play in societal, national and global development. However, some of these roles are common to both genders while others may be gender-specific i.e some of these roles are exclusive to or more suitable for one of the two.

So I don’t see the need to argue, let both genders play their roles efficiently.

From the desk of a creative Muslim

Abdultoyyib ibn Musediq