International Journal of Contemporary Research in Multidisciplinary

This treatise is an inter-disciplinary critical discourse in philosophy and literary studies. It interrogates the perennial and ubiquitous sexism and unfounded bias of the patriarchal society against the female child. The method and theoretical tool of analysis employed in this phenomenological study is hermeneutics. Through this method, the expository analysis reveals that the life of the average girl-child in the gendered world is encumbered by gender-based discriminations, prejudices, exploitations, mutilations, and dominations. The zenith of the litanies of indignities that demeans the life of the girl-child is the relegation of the latter to the status of a second class citizen in relation to her male counterpart. Based on the findings of this hermeneutical and phenomenological analysis, the discourse concludes by asserting the thesis that all humans (males and females) are born equally, and equals ought to be treated equally, irrespective of their gender types. However, owing to the indissoluble biological differences between men and women, neither gender sameness nor gender neutral society is unachievable. Based on this tokenism, gender parity or equality should not be misunderstood as gender sameness or uniformity or even negative motherhood. We therefore recommend that the goal of gender studies and feminism should be the quest for egalitarianism, mutual respect and symbiotic relationship between people of the two genders.