Should We All Be Feminist?

In 2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered a speech for a Ted Talk based on a very controversial issue, gender inequality. A year later, in 2014, Ngozi was inspired to transform her speech into the book, “We Should All Be Feminist”. The book was all transcripted by her Ted Talk in 2013. In this novel, Ngozi ultimately argues about gender inequality, and how individuals are compressed to live by social expectations or stereotypes, and fights against the negative interpretation that individuals have of feminism. Adichie expresses that there needs to be a gender equality, where both men and women, can be perceived by their individuality, instead of their gender. Where their individuality makes them who they are, instead of acting according to what society expects them to be. For instance, boys are expected to be the ones earning the money and pay for everything, like bills or meals (pg 26). But Adichie believes that whoever has the most money should be the one to pay, and that gender should not intersect with money. Also another stereotype is, that all women should know how to cook, as she thought that they were born with a “cooking gene” (pg35). Ngozi implies that in society or in cultures, girls, from a young age, should be taught how to cook so that they can be ready for marriage. While she also

For example, women are taught to compromise at an early age (pg 37). They are taught about marriage more than men are. And since they are taught to compromise, they are expected to abandon everything (like their job or their own houses ) behind in order to make their husband happy and to not disintegrate their masculinity. They leave behind their ambitions, their jobs, their dreams in order to bring “peace” to their marriage (pg 31). And Adichie believes that instead of one particular gender focusing on the happiness of their marriage, it should be both individuals working