What would Sandra Cisneros say?

After reading the book The House on Mango Street, I think that Sandra Cisneros believes that boys and girls should not be raised differently.  There are examples throughout the book that prove this so. First of all, there are many struggles and challenges people have to overcome. The thing I noticed was that pretty much every person who has to face these challenges are young women. I could not find any vignettes where a guy was in a dark time in his life. This just shows that because girls and boys are raised differently, women end up having more problems in their life than men. This is one way of saying that they should be raised the same.
There is this vignette on page 31 called Alicia Who Sees Mice. It is about this girl who’s mom died. It talks about how she goes has to do a lot of work around the house now that her mom is not there. She also has to worry about her education. Even though she goes to a university and has to take two trains and a bus to get there, she is still very willing to do it because she does not want to live her life working in a factory or “behind the rolling pin” like most women are. Here is a quote from that vignette:  

“Is a good girl, my friend, studies all night and sees the mice, the ones her father says do not exist. Is afraid of nothing except four-legged fur. And fathers.”

I think she is trying to say that mothers understand teenage girls the most. They can see through their perspective. The mice can symbolize the dilemmas she has in her life. So whenever she tries to talk to her dad about these “mice” she encounters, it is almost as if he denies there to be any because he just does not understand.
There is another vignette on page 92 called What Sally Said which is about a depressing girl with a complicated life. Here is a very meaningful quote from this vignette:  

“One day Sally's father catches her talking to a boy and the next day she doesn't come to school. And the next. Until the way Sally tells it, he just went crazy, he just forgot he was her father between the buckle and the belt.”

This quote says a lot about what the fathers expect their daughters to do. In this setting, boys had more freedom than girls. Sally’s father beating her just for talking to a guy shows how strictly girls are raised. This is the reason Sally is always feeling down. And this is how I know Sandra Cisneros believes boys and girls should be raised the same.