Question about Childcare and Gender Discimination
Nomen Nescio
I have some questions regards the treatment of children below 8 years of age [but at least 3] by adults not related to them -- biologically or adoptive ["step"].
Let's say there are two kids who are in the aforementioned age group -- a boy and a girl. Both are of the exact same age, size, height, and weight. Both kids are equal in terms of strengths/weaknesses [physical and mental] and neither have any illness or disability -- physical or mental. Also, neither one behaves worse or better than the other.
The aforementioned children attend a school where their teacher is a male who is 30 years of age. The teacher, too, has no disease, disability or handicap [physical or psychological]. He is just like the average 30-year-old man.
Is it likely that this man will treat the girl "better" than the boy? If so, is such sexism prevalent in all cultures -- east and west? Assuming this sexism does exist, how long has the human society provided this gender-different treatment to children? Let's say the man refused to treat the girl "better" than the boy -- what would be the results?
By "better" I mean one or more of the following:
1. More compassion
2. More sympathy
3. More respect
4. More gentleness
5. More easiness
6. More empathy
7. More cleanliness
8. More protection
9. More luxury
10. More personal space
11. More privacy
12. More security
13. More freedom
14. More modesty
15. More decency
Also, what are the psychological effects of this gender-biased treatment of kids? Is such treatment healthy? Do you think the man should provide such preferential-treatment to the girl over a boy?
How will the girl feel about the above gender-biased treatment?
How will the boy feel about the aforementioned gender-biased treatment?
Assuming it exists, is this "pro-girl" discrimination innate or instinctive in men? Is it at all logical or rational? Does it benefit humanity as a whole?
If this "pro-girl sexism" is NOT innate, instinctive, logical, rational, or beneficial, then why would the aforementioned man treat the girl "better" than the boy?
Thank so much,
Joshua Robert Charles