I was born in a small town named Hailin, located in the North-East of China. The most serious problems in my hometown are the backward ideas about a womans place in the family, school, workplace, and society. These negative stereotypes hurt not only women, but all of society as well. If possible, I would change the attitudes of the people in my hometown so they would view men and women equally. Discrimination against women in my hometown begins before they are even born. Because people here believe that only a man can carry on the family line, every family wants to have at least one son. Each family is only supposed to have one child because of the overpopulation problem. This means that if a family can find out a fetus is female before it is born they might abort it. Or in other cases, people will have many female babies before they have a son, which only makes the population problem worse. If female babies were considered as important as male babies, then these two problems probably would not exist. Discrimination against girls continues as they go to school and work. The prevalent stereotype is that women are not as smart as men and we shouldnt waste time and money educating them. Families often insist that their daughters stay at home and help with housework while sending their sons to school. Girls are born every bit as smart as boys and equally deserve to reap the benefits of education. Many of the worlds famous scientists and leaders are women, from Marie Curie to Margaret Thatcher. We need to eliminate the stereotype that women are less intelligent than men so that our community can benefit from the achievements that women are capable of making when armed with education. In fact, women need to be respected enough to hold professional and leadership jobs in our community. This would mean that in the classified section of newspapers, there would no longer be jobs for men only. We will never know how many women could have done those jobs better than a man could have until the parents of every baby girl decide that their daughter is worth as much as their son. This is probably the most important thing that I want to change about my hometown.
我出生在一个叫海林的小城镇，位于中国东北部。我家乡最严重的问题是关于一个女人在家庭、学校、工作场所和社会中的地位的落后观念。这些负面的刻板印象不仅伤害了女性，而且也伤害了所有的社会。如果可能的话，我会改变我家乡的人们的态度，这样他们就可以看到男人和女人的看法。在我的家乡歧视妇女的开始之前，他们甚至出生。因为这里的人们相信只有一个人可以进行家庭，每个家庭都想拥有至少一个儿子。每个家庭只能有一个孩子因为过剩的问题。这意味着，如果一个家庭可以找到一个胎儿是女性，在出生前，他们可能会中止它。或在其他情况下，人们会有许多女婴儿之前，他们有一个儿子，这只会使人口问题恶化。如果女性婴儿被认为是重要的男性婴儿，那么这两者可能不存在。对女孩的歧视继续作为他们去学校和工作。普遍的刻板印象是，女人不像男人那么聪明，我们不应该浪费时间和金钱来教育他们。家庭通常坚持认为自己的女儿在家里待在家里帮忙做家务，同时送孩子上学。女孩是天生的，每一个有点像男孩一样聪明，也同样值得获得教育的好处。世界上许多著名的科学家和领袖都是女性，从玛丽居里到玛格丽特撒切尔。我们需要消除这种刻板印象，认为妇女比男人聪明，这样我们的社会就可以从妇女在武装和教育方面取得的成就中受益。事实上，妇女需要得到足够的尊重，以在我们的社会中从事专业和领导工作。这将意味着在报纸的分类部分，那里将不再是工作只有男人。我们永远不会知道有多少女人能做的工作比一个人能直到父母的每一个宝贝女孩决定，他们的女儿是值得他们的儿子一样。这可能是我最重要的事情，我想改变我的家乡。