Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We Should All Be Feminists

1. IDEA 1

   Feminism is about fairness

   Adichie, based on her TED talk, argues that feminism simply means believing in social, political and economic equality between men and women. She uses stories from her life in Nigeria and America to show why it still matters.

2. IDEA 2

   Expectations start in childhood

   Adichie describes how girls and boys are taught different expectations from a young age. She recalls being denied a class role she earned because she was a girl. She presents such early lessons as a root of later inequality.

3. IDEA 3

   Boys are also limited

   Adichie argues that boys are taught to hide fear and weakness, which limits them too. Narrow ideas of masculinity harm everyone. In her view, fixed ideas of how a man should behave can be a kind of cage.

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