This document summarizes an Erasmus+ project from 2017-2019 that examined gender stereotypes in idioms from a dictionary. Students analyzed idioms sorted into 8 categories that portrayed stereotypical views of women as inferior, such as needing to be educated by force, not being trustworthy, being stupid and lazy, provoking sin, having value only for their beauty or as sexual objects, and belonging at home. The project aimed to determine if such stereotypes contribute to an inegalitarian society.

1. Erasmus+ Project 2017/19
DICTIONARY
Project Number – 2017-1-ES01-KA201-038189
Viterbo, 5th - 9th February 2018

2. DICTIONARY: ARE THERE
GENDER STEREOTYPES
DETERMINING AN
INEGALITARIAN SOCIETY?
Secondary 4th PAM
IES Lloixa Sant Joan d’Alacant

3. INTRODUCTION
 Idioms’ dictionary
 Larger original list
 Students’ background
 8 categories according to topics

4. 1) “WOMEN MUST BE EDUCATED BY
FORCE”
 La dona és bèstia que li agrada el càstig.
The woman is a beast who enjoys punishment.
 Al marit, temer-lo, voler-lo i obeir-lo.
The husband is to be feared, loved and obeyed.
 Déu ens doni una senyora i un bastó per fer-la córrer.
Shall God give us a lady and a stick to make her
run.
 Mula i dona, garrot la fan bona.
The stick makes mule and woman good.

5. 2) “WOMEN CANNOT BE TRUSTED”
 De la dona, del mar i del foc, no te’n fies ni gens ni poc.
Don’t trust women, the sea, nor fire.
 A l’amiga que ho és, no li ensenyes el promés.
Don’t introduce your fiancé to your (female) friend.
 Cap home savi i discret diu a la dona un secret.
No wise and discreet man tells a woman a secret.

6. 3) “WOMEN ARE STUPID AND LAZY”
 Dona balconera, poc feinera.
She who gossips through the balcony, works little.
 Dones: mal bestiar.
Women: bad cattle.
 Dona al volant: perill constant.
Woman at the wheel: constant danger.

7. 4) “WOMEN ARE LINKED TO SIN; THEY
PROVOKE”
 La dona és el pecat.
Woman is sin.
 La dona que culeja és perquè ho desitja.
She who wiggles does so to get attention.

8. 5) “INTELLIGENCE IN WOMEN IS
NEGATIVE”
 Déu me’n guard de mula que fa hiii i de dona que
sap llatí.
 Shall God keep me from the heehawing
mule
and from the learned woman.

9. 6) “ONLY BEAUTY IS VALUABLE IN
WOMEN, BUT IT LASTS FOR SHORT”
 Dona bonica i vi bo no duren gaire.
Beautiful woman and good wine don’t last long.
 A la dona busca-la prima i neta, que grossa i bruta ja
s’hi torna.
 Search for a slim and clean woman, as she’ll
turn fat
and dirty anyway.
 A la llum d’una teia, no hi ha dona lletja.
All women are beautiful in the light of a
firebrand.

10. 7) “WOMEN ARE SEXUAL OBJECTS”
 A pica d’aigua beneïta i a mossa d’hostal, tothom hi
fica mà.
 All hands get in the baptismal font and on the
hostal’s maid.
 Els diners són per gastar i les dones per tocar.
Money is to be spent and women touched.
 El vi en bóta i la dona en pilota.
Wine; in wineskin and woman; naked.

11. 8) “WOMEN MUST BE AT HOME”
 A la dona a casa, res li passa.
She who stays at home, no pain shall endure.
 L’amor entra per la cuina.
Love comes in through the kitchen.
 La dona i la paella, a la cuina estan bé.
The woman and the pan are fine in the kitchen.
 Febrer i les dones; entre quatre parets.
February and women: between four walls.

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