Question 2: How can the stereotype that girls are a burden on their parents affect the life of a daughter? Imagine this situation and list at least five different effects that this stereotype can have on the way daughters get treated in the house.
Answer:
The stereotype that girls are burden on their parents affect the lives of a daughter in following ways:
1. They are not taken care properly. The parents do not look after the daughter properly and asks her to manage her problems. They expect that the daughter will not share anything including her feelings in the society.
2. The parents get the daughter married early because they think she is burden on them and by making her bride they think that their burden will be less.
3. They are not allowed to attend school. Their parents think that there is no need of sending them to school and also thinks that it is a wastage of money and time as well.
4. They are engaged in household works. Their family members think that girls are only for handling household works like cooking, mopping and sweeping etc.
5. They are not allowed to play or go outside the house as well as they are not allowed to talk with boys. Parents and the other mates thinks that if girls will talk with boys, society will make fun of her family and this is a shameful thing if she play with any boy, the society creates stereotype against her. Hence, keeping this orthodox mentality in mind the parent does not allow girls to go outside the house.
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