by Alice Martins

Created on: November 06, 2009

No gender is superior to another. Both have qualities, capabilities and defects. When God created the human being made them simple and ignorant. He gave all his children opportunities to learn, grow and evolve. No one boasts, in good conscience, to be better than others.

God is merciful father of all, expects each of us comply with their duties and observe its laws wise in their daily life. The man by his physical characteristics have more muscle strength and endurance than women. The woman, more fragile in this sense is generally more tender, patient and strong to resist the moral landslides.

You could say that man and woman are complementary throughout life. The union of the sexes, procreation generates is the continuity of the human race. That is why God made them male and female to learn everyday living, the sacred duties of parents. Learn to live with the family that is the foundation of society. This coexistence will be born the moral-spiritual growth and the ability to educate their children with love, so that our society become more humane, flexible and loving.

The man and woman should not exist for the war of the sexes, but, yes, tolerance, mutual understanding and forgiveness, as no sexual gender is better or superior to another. We need to both learn and educate themselves in the love of God, loving and respecting their sacred laws and loving yourself and respecting each other. This includes the duties to the family and society.

Despite of that the policy discussions, media, and academics on gender equality issues at the last decades, many sexist ideas are still part of Brazilian culture and explain the social, economic, occupational and behavioral differences between genders.

These are some sexist ideas of character and behavioral problems, socio-economic or legal related to them:


It is man's natural duty for the family
Early dropout of most men, especially in the poorer classes, who are pressured to work to support their families while their sisters or wives have greater freedom to choose between work or study. Consequent reversal of the imbalance on the educational gender, with women rising up higher educational levels than men on average.

Work overload is on the male gender (25% of Brazilian men economically active work more than 49 hours per week compared with only 12% of women in the same condition).

Women should be responsible for home
High percentage of women without economic occupation, although we focus in this genre on the highest levels of educational and professional.
Mothers are more important in the education of their children than their parents.

Extremely low rate of judicial decisions in favor of custody of children of separated couples to be given to parents or to be shared between father and mother.
Men do not cry / men should be strong / woman who is beaten to the loose (and variations of these arguments)
Less demand for males for medical care compared to women.

Resistance of male individuals in charges against their partners when they come to be victims of domestic violence.
Betraying the nature of male (but not female)
Male attitudes are violent, often resulting in aggression or crimes against life, when suspected or finding of adultery
Perceived social rejection by women who cheat on their partners, unlike what happens to men infidels and many others.

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