I have been applying for jobs recently, and had an interview last week for one in a very, very niche field, which does not attract many women. I said over dinner to DH "I bet it goes to a man, probably someone ex military."
DD then chipped in "Well it wouldn't be surprising, really, as men are brighter and more able than women."
I asked her what she meant by this, and she said "Well, women can be nurses, but only men can be doctors, and women can be teaching assistants, and teachers, but not headteachers because only men can be headteachers."
I pointed out that her best friend's mother is a surgeon, and that the new head at her school is a woman, but she just said that the head teacher is only really a teacher, and she didn't know her friend's mother was a doctor.
What is going on in her mind, and where does she get these ideas from? Not from me, that's for sure - I work, I have a career, I'm the breadwinner (but she wouldn't know this), so it's not like she doesn't have role models.
I despair, I really do.
AIBU?
to be dismayed, annoyed and disturbed that DD1 (who is 10) thinks that "men are brighter and more able than women."
MrsSchadenfreude · 15/05/2009 21:44
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