2. Definition of Gender and
Stereotypes
• Gender :
attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a
given culture associates with a person’s
biological sex
• Stereotypes :
Belief about social group in terms of the
traits or characteristics that they are
believed to share, stereotype are cognitive
framework that influence the processing of
social information.
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3. What is Gender Stereotypes?
⦿ Gender stereotype is beliefs about the personal
attributes of females and males.
⦿ Personal attributes?
Personal attributes basically means traits that
make up your personality, which define who you
are as a person.
For example these could be personal attributes
to describe someone: outgoing, extrovert, open.
They are important because they are what
makes you who you are, what other people find
in you that they may like or dislike.
4. Type of Gender Stereotypes
⦿ Female stereotype
- The stereotype begin since a baby
- If baby was girl their tendency are more to girlish thing like
wear pink clothes, toys like a Barbie doll.
- Parents are the most contributive factor for this
stereotyping.
- Some example of stereotype about woman:
c)
a) Women are not as strong as men
b) Women are supposed to have "clean jobs" such as
secretaries, teachers, and librarians
Women are nurses, not doctors
- Woman are saying more gentle and kind heart person.
5. Type of Gender Stereotypes
⦿ Male stereotype
- . From the beginning, since they were small boys are
taught to be tough, to be protective, and to defend
themselves.
- Their outfits usually in blue colour which simbolic to a men
- Their toys were like trucks,car,robot, a tough game.
- Mostly boys were aggressive in their playing than girls.
- Some example of stereotype:
a) Men do not do housework and they are not responsible
for taking care of children
b) Men do "dirty jobs" such as construction and mechanics;
they are not secretaries, teachers, or cosmetologists
c) Men do not cook, sew, or do crafts
8. The Effect Of Gender Stereotypes
⦿ often impaired performance
⚫ the performance of
conditions of stereotype
those
threat
under
suffers
compared to those who perform under
less threatening conditions
⦿ to physiological outcomes
⚫Increase the blood pressure
9. ⦿ men’s stereotypic leadership -historically led by
men is on downhill trend
⚫women has been a huge disadvantage for the
advancement of women socially, through
education and in the workforce.
⚫women are:
submissive, quiet, neat, weak, clean, clumsy,
incompetent and motherly
10. ⦿can lead to depression, anxiety, and eating
disorders
⚫women reported feeling bad about their bodies after
looking at images of models in magazines and
advertisements
⦿ In deciding among male and female job candidates.
⚫when the position was risky thus, the male
candidate was selected significantly more often.
11. Conclusion
⦿ Stereotype is the reflection on how we
see members of different groups
actually behaving, stereotypes change
should occur when the relation between
the groups is changing and altered.
