In one of our 7-week explorations, there is an exploration called ‘Gender Equity’. This exploration talked about how the world nowadays giving equity to both genders. One of their final products is to host an event called, ‘Gender Summit’, and participate by liger students and other schools that are invited.
On Saturday 27th, the discussion of gender equity was held in English and Sunday in Khmer. They’ve divided into four main points including Culture, Power, Commercial, and Language usage regarding gender issues.
We talked about how culture shaped our perspective on many points especially the idea of boys being masculine and girls being feminine and talked about how we still keep that perspective functioning in our brain. Power, how this male-dominated society gives opportunities to male, female, and LGBTQ+ community. On the other hand, we also discussed how commercials, TV-shows, and other entertainments shaped our young adults’ perspectives. For example, those funky dresses that girls on TV wear influenced the young kids of how girls should look like. Furthermore, the color, Pink, that should only be girl’s color while in fact, it’s just a color. Lastly, we talked about connotation and denotation that the society refers and uses to describe female and male. For instance, the word, ‘male’ the society connotated this word as masculinity, strong, while in fact, it’s just a sex to describe a person.
After all these discussions, we’ve concluded to the point where we are all equal and we’re trying to change the new generations’ ideas upon this. We all are capable of doing what we want to do, achieving our dreams, and living to the best of our lives. Therefore, we’re trying to fight through gender barriers that happen currently and it should be an issue that concerns everybody, that urges the eager of everybody to keep fighting.
