I think the most common one is gender discrimination. In some culture, many regard women as someone weaker than men. In the family setting, female family members are given less freedom compared to male members.
In the current time, many women had been raised with a different mindset to this perception and thus had competed with men in the workforce. Many of these women had become successful despite the gender disparity.
"like tears on a child's dirty face" is a figurative language
