Blog #5: Rethink about jobs

Hello everyone! I’m Makiko. I know this is sudden, but I’ll ask you 2 questions;

1.   Can you draw figures of a nurse, a flight attendant, a teacher of a kinder garden and a florist in your mind with your imagination?

2.   Then, can you draw an astronaut, a mechanic, a scientist, a pilot, a policeman and a surgeon, next?

Done?
Okay, then I’ll guess your imaginations. The people for the question No.1 are women and people for No.2 are men, aren’t they?
Correct?
This is exactly what I want you to think about through reading my post. People tend to think that jobs which require kindness and communication skills are for women and the ones which require the scientific knowledge and physical power are for men.

But can’t girls have a dream to be an astronaut to change the human’s history? Can’t boys long to the florist to make people happy? Of course they can! But as you’ve EXPERIENCED just now, people still have a prejudice for women’s jobs and men’s jobs. So we have to throw them away.

Now I want to introduce some interesting programs to solve these problems.

First of all, watch this video below.

This is made by EU. What did you think? Wasn’t it awkward? Well,it was failed. There was a big argument all over the world soon after it had made. And because of a lot of criticism, EU stopped using it.

Next thing is a “Girls’ Day.”
On this day, girls go to the scientific companies or laboratories and experience “men’s jobs.” This is carried out in many countries. It would be a good opportunity for girls to think about their futures in those kinds of jobs.

At last, let me introduce my favorite video about this topic.

Isn’t it awesome? I like it very much!

People’s lifestyles are changing and the differences between men and women are getting less. The era of quiet modest girls is over now. We can do whatever we want. The only thing we have to do now is to put off our stupid suits of prejudice!

GIRLS, BE ANBICIOUS.