In this interview, I asked my interviewee if they had ever experienced gender inequality. My interviewee was a 17 year old female, and because of her young age, I think, she told me she had not really experienced much gender inequality. Instead, she mentioned that she had experienced favoritism among her own gender. When I asked her about her background and family, she told me that growing up with three older brothers had given her different experience. I asked if she had experienced favoritism or different treatment inside her family, being the only girl. She replied that being the youngest sibling and only girl, the parenting was definitely more relaxed with her. They would think of her as just the little, innocent girl. She was automatically given more grace, thought of as innocent, and in need of protection, just because she was a girl. Now I wouldn't call this gender INEQUALITY; more like favoritism. I see this happening a lot in families with only one female child.
Chelsea Graves
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