“In our toddler days, we were made to wear a petticoat almost every day. Girls are not inferior to men, not in this generation or the ones before it.” We were taught from a very young age that girls need not be saved, that they can be heroes, protagonists of their own stories. “Cinderella, Snow White or Red Riding Hood weren’t our role models.
There was nothing that was beyond our reach.” Every breakfast, when we were much younger, mom would remind us we could be anything we wanted to be. “My Mom is the Chinese one in the family, but she did not believe in gender roles. Growing up, Lamentillo had never been one to conform to gender roles, and that was mostly due to the encouragement of her mother. She is also the author of Night Owl, which is a book that doubles as a progress report on the Duterte Administration’s infrastructure accomplishments in the last five years. Lamentillo is the former chair of the Build, Build, Build Program under the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). One would definitely assume that heading the Build, Build, Build Committee is a man’s job, but the person who holds that title is actually a woman named Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo.
Aside from that, Chinoy culture also has the tendency to assign gender to certain professions, with the older generation often being the judge and jury on the kind of job befitting a man or woman. There’s an ongoing joke in the Chinoy community about how you can only pursue a few specific career paths: business, medicine, engineering, or law, and choosing anything else would land you in filial disappointment.
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