“Advantages and disadvantages of being a girl”

by Paola Alvarado

 

We are about 3,523,843,881 women in the world and usually, most of us just talk about the disadvantages we have, but why don´t we ask ourselves which ones are the advantages of being a girl?                                                                                                     

Girls have as many disadvantages as advantages, and we have to learn to be happy with what we have. We have one of the best advantages we can ever imagine and it´s giving birth.

Giving birth is an opportunity only girls can have. The fact of having your own baby to take care of should undoubtedly be the best feeling in life. Many girls all around the world think giving birth is a joke and that´s why they are 80 million unwanted pregnancies and about 40 million of those pregnancies are aborts, after they abort about 90% of them feel guilty of their decision. This is something serious, something we have to take care of, not just throw it away like a toy.

Girls tend to be more organized too. This is a really good advantage because you can either use it in school or when you grow up at your own house. According to a study made by The Journal of Human Resources, girls always do better than guys at school  because we pay more attention and we are much more organized than them so as a result we get better grades. Imagine, just in my class the average of the girls´grade is 9.1 while the boys´average is 7.8, so it definitely makes the difference.

Even though we have really good advantages, sadly we aren´t perfect so we have disadvantages too.

One of the worst disadvantages is that we have periods. Periods can get really painful and we can even change our mood really fast, which could make people think we are bipolar. One of my parent´s friend is a pediatrician at Star Medica and he told me that most of the patient´s parents´number one concern is about their daughter´s period. He also told me that many of his patients are even scared that during the cycle they will suffer any injuries or any problems. We can all get scared but it´s something we have to live with.

 Another is that girls suffer a lot of discrimination. Mostly boys discriminate us because they think we can´t do thing as well done as them, that´s why 1/3 of the women in the world suffer discrimination in their workplace. Another form of discrimination that women suffered was when they were not even able to vote for their governants until October 17, 1953. Anyway, never let anyone discriminate you, discrimination isn´t good that´s why we have to learn to fight for our rights.

As a conclusión, girls aren´t perfect, but we don´t only have to focus in our advantages because we are all perseverant women who are capable of doing everything we want to in life.