In an opinion column on Thursday (4) the President of the United States, Barack Obama, who has a birthday today, described as a feminist and asked that efforts be renewed to end gender stereotypes.
Father of two girls and raised by a single mother, Obama published an article in Glamour magazine which holds that "this is an exciting time to be a woman." "I say this not only as president but also as a feminist."
Referring to the advancement of women - since obtaining the right to vote to access to jobs that were banned - Obama said that "the most important change, perhaps the hardest of all, was to transform themselves."
He noted that create Sasha, 15, and Malia, 18, opened his eyes about the pressure girls are subjected. "Seeing them subtle and not so subtle stereotypes that are transmitted through the culture.
Sit the enormous pressure which girls are subjected to shine and behave and even think in a certain way. "
"We have to keep changing the attitudes that lead our girls to be recatas and our boys, energetic, who criticize our girls to express their opinions and our children to shed a tear," he wrote.
Obama complete 55 years on Thursday.
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