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Across humanity there are some things most known cultures have celebrations for and can be used well as an easy way to expand on the lore of your world without info dumping. here are some of them:

Independence / Unity / National / Freedom Day: the day used to commemorate when a nation, kingdom, or faction came together as one. This may be the day a treaty was signed, the day the former regime was overthrown, the day a new ruler was sworn in...

Ruler's Birthday: if there is a single or a few rulers, their birthdays might be celebrated with large festivities

End & Beginning of a year: regardless which calendar is used, most societies had some way to measure the length of one cycle (lunar cycle, every ___ amount of days, the beginning of a particular season, maybe something more abstract like the first day the flowers bloom or the day of the first snowfall...) and celebrate accordingly

Celebrating a Season: celebrating summer with festivities outside, spring with a flower market, autumn with a harvest festival, winter with a bonfire...

Day of Mourning/Remembrance: either in general or a day for remembering the dead from a certain event, tragedy, war...

Religious Festivals: depending on your type of belief system there could be many celebrations or only one or two

Historic Memorial Days: the day a war ended, the day of a massacre, the day of a revolution, the day of any grand and influential type of event that is remembered years later

In fact, 10% of both men and women responded saying that they "usually felt lonely". The conclusion of the first section of the study actually was:

"While the mixed and somewhat noisy evidence makes strong conclusions difficult, it does suggest that if anything, it is young women that report feeling particularly lonely right now."

When it comes to friendships (which people might argue will have a larger gender gap), a 2023 study found a 1% difference in men and women. Between the ages 18-29, young women reported being unsatisfied by the number of close friendships at a much higher rate! (75% of men were satisfied vs 66% of women)

The first hint of male specific loneliness really arrives when it comes to specific metrics like inability to share their true self or feeling irrelevant.

"These patterns suggest that while the amount of time alone and self-reported loneliness may not differ much by gender, the structure of social connections often does. Men are more likely to have smaller, less diverse networks and to lack certain forms of community participation. Our analysis of the Household Pulse Survey shows that while a majority of both men (68%) and women (69%) say they are getting their social and emotional needs met, how they meet those needs differs somewhat, as figure 8 shows."

At the end, the study decides things might not be so black and white.

Americans now spend more time alone than they did two decades ago, but the retreat from social life looks similar for men and women. Survey data likewise show that the sexes report similar levels of loneliness, comparable numbers of close friends, and equivalent perceptions of emotional support. Yet averages can conceal as much as they reveal. Greater risks may cluster among certain subgroups, such as younger women or older men. Men and women may also define and disclose loneliness differently, and gender norms continue to shape how men build and sustain friendships.

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And, again, the "thing they don't like" is just female main characters, which is a problem in of itself. That shouldn't make a difference to the book itself in general, unless it's a book specifically written for women, which OP excludes when they choose books based on the childrens' preferences.

OP also definitely wasn't suggesting "forcing" these children to read the books, but was probably suggesting that the parents' attitude heavily contributes to the sexism in children. I mean, that's literally what the last paragraph says. When children are not corrected in their thoughts that they don't have to care about the perspectives of half the fucking planet, that's pretty fucked up. And that's what leads to the dynamic OP was discussing.

A currency that isn’t gold-standard/having gold be as valuable as tin

A currency that runs entirely on a perishable resource, like cocoa beans

A clock that isn’t 24-hours

More or less than four seasons/seasons other than the ones we know

Fantastical weather patterns like irregular cloud formations, iridescent rain

Multiple moons/no moon

Planetary rings

A northern lights effect, but near the equator

Roads that aren’t brown or grey/black, like San Juan’s blue bricks

Jewelry beyond precious gems and metals

Marriage signifiers other than wedding bands

The husband taking the wife's name / newlyweds inventing a new surname upon marriage

No concept of virginity or bastardry

More than 2 genders/no concept of gender

Monotheism, but not creationism

Gods that don’t look like people

Domesticated pets that aren’t re-skinned dogs and cats

Some normalized supernatural element that has nothing to do with the plot

Magical communication that isn’t Fantasy Zoom

“Books” that aren’t bound or scrolls

A nonverbal means of communicating, like sign language

A race of people who are obligate carnivores/ vegetarians/ vegans/ pescatarians (not religious, biological imperative)