What would Cisneros Think?

In the novel The House of Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, there are manty qoutes that contain contrasts between how girls and boys are treated by their parents. However, it is clear that Cisneros wants both girls and boys to be treated equally by their parents and have the rules appply to all of the siblings. This is a shown in the vignette Boys and Girls which talks about how they are treated differently.
            "The boys and the gitrls live in separate worlds. The boys in their universe and we in ours... Nenny is too young to be my friend. She's just my sister and that is not my fault...She can't play with them Vargas kids or she'll turn out just like them. And since she comes right after me, she is my responsibility." (p8)
             This qoute contains quite a bit of information on how boys and girls are treated. For one, it says that boys and girls live in separate worlds, which could be influenced by their parents. They  might tell the boys to go play soccer or something like that, and they'll tell the girls to read or something. So maybe they lived in separate worlds because their parents indirectly taught them to. This could be the first sign where parents influence their children to be different and to have different lives. The second sign ties in to the first. Where it says that Nenny can't play with the Vargas kids and is under the responsibility of her sister, Esperanza. Therefore Esperanza's only friend (so far) is her sister. So apparently the parents want their daughters to be polite and obedient, which is unlike the Vargas kids that are crazy and disobedient.
             The second qoute that exemplifies how differently boys and girls are treated is in the vignette Sally.
"Her father says to be be this beautiful is trouble. They are very strict in his religion. They are not supposed to dance. Then she can't go out. Sally I mean." (p81)
              This qoute shows that Sally is limited to certain things by her father. She can't dance, she can't go out, and she can't even talk to other boys without the permission of her father. She is so limited that she desperalty wishes that she could be in a place where she could have someone to love and not be told what do all the time by her father. Her father probably does all of this because she's a girl and he wants to keep her safe or all his so she can always be his daughter and not grow up too fast. If it were a boy though, then the father would probably just accept he was growing up and would let him do whatever he wanted.