VIDEO: Kids Talk Gender
Nine-year-olds: They're smack in the middle of childhood but old enough to have sage views on gender. Here, kids from all over the world share what they like about being boys and girls—and what they wish could be different.
If you want candid answers about how gender shapes destiny, ask the world’s nine-year-olds.
At nine, a girl in Kenya already knows that her parents will marry her off for a dowry, to a man who may beat her. At nine, a boy in India already knows he’ll be pressured by male pals to sexually harass women in the street.
At nine, youngsters from China to Canada and Kenya to Brazil describe big dreams for future careers—but the boys don’t see their gender as an impediment, while the girls, all too frequently, do.
