The experience of your relatives and parents treating girls and boys differently.

For them, it was always, "You don't need to learn how to cook and clean, beta. Your wife will do it for you, you only need to focus on your job and studies."

For us, it was always, "You need to learn how to take care of yourself, how to cook, how to clean. We won't always be with you."

For them, A happy birthday wish would start with, "Bhagavan kare ki tumhari lambi umar ho, tum sukhi raho aur zindagi mein taraki karo, tumhe ek sundar aur acchi si bahu mil jaye jo tumhara khayal rkhe."

For us, it would be, "Bhagvan kare ki tumhari lambi umar ho, tum sukhi raho aur zindagi mein taraki karo,"

When a male child is born, nobody is disappointed, no if or buts, but when a girl child is born, everybody would remain silent and act as if something bad has happened.

If they truly don't care about the gender, then why do they suggest ways and superstitions that people believe ensure the child is a boy?

Why are we handed the brooms, the plates, the kitchen, because we need to be an independent woman from a young age while our male cousins and siblings focus on studying, hobbies, etc, because their wives will do it for them and they don't need to worry?

Why is it that everybody considers it important only to teach women all these basic life skills, and shame only them for it if they don't learn them and not the men too who do the same? Basic life skills are necessary regardless of your gender.

Why is it that only we will be called to make food for the guests, not our male relatives?