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Girls don’t mature faster than boys, it’s just we live in a misogynistic and gender-stereotyped world. Maturity can be defined as a fully grown stage, also an ability to respond to a situation in an appropriate manner. Girls understand each situation and suffer everything, so it doesn’t mean they have matured at an early age, but it means people and society have made the mindsets and teach girls that things in their way, an example which is very commonly seen, they are taught to sacrifice or understand and let go when it comes between siblings for anything may it be a chocolate or toys or studies.
They are also said that many things like on physicality that your height has increased now it should not increase more because you are a girl and it should be less than a boy, or maybe emotional terms they are said to learn from your brother and fathers they don’t cry, so here instead of teaching it validly they make comparison and are made feel matured enough.
There’s nothing like boys less matured and girls more, because maturity is when they have the ability to make good decisions without being guided, or mature when they act in the right way according to the situation in front of them. There are different people saying maturity in their own way, someone would say who is physically reached adult is mature, others may say that whoever listens and doesn’t speak up all the time is matured. It’s people who teach and also the ones who compare. Maturity isn’t about age, some may be younger and still have bright thinking whether it is a boy or a girl, some may have it early, others later.