I moved to another country to my mom’s work and I decided I wanted to go to an international school instead of going to a school in the native language. When I first came I got asked by everyone “Did you move here for your dad’s work?” and everytime I explained that my mom was the reason, there was this shock on their face and said things like “so your mom dragged your dad all the way here?” Even though my dad was even more excited to move than me or my mom. After a while this mostly quieted down.
The next year I still went to this school and the teachers asked if a parent of on the students could be a class representitive for the other parents of the students in that class.
My dad decided he would be the representitive for my class. Every month he, and the other parents that were representitives for the other classes, got an email with some information about what is happening in school that month, and every email started with “dear mums” even though my dad received these emails. We replied to those emails saying that my dad was there so we asked to stop saying “dear mums”, we went to the principal, to the person that was responsible for these emails,etc.
They never changed it and it made my dad feel really insecure.
This shows that sexism isn’t only something that happens to women.