The document discusses gender stereotypes, defining them as overgeneralized beliefs about the attributes associated with males and females, rooted in cultural perceptions. It highlights how media and television often reinforce these stereotypes, portraying men as dominant and women as submissive, which impacts societal views and women's opportunities. Historically, these stereotypes have disadvantaged women in various aspects, including education and workforce participation.

3. 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.
 Attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a given
culture associates with a person’s biological sex,

4. STEREOTYPES DEFINE BY SCHOLARS
In social psychology, a stereotype is a fixed,
over generalized belief about a particular group
or class of people.
Term “Stereotype "was coined by “Walter
Lippmann”. He defines the term in his 1922
book, Public Opinion, as “the pictures in our
heads" that we have of a specific group of
people.

5. What does Gender Means

6. WHAT DOES MEAN BY STEREOTYPES?
Stereotype is a fixed, general image of a
person or thing shared by many
people.

8. FEMALE STEREOTYPE

10. Male Stereotype

11. ROLL OF TV, AND MEDIA
Most of time television programs are quite short, the identities of
characters must be established as quickly as possible. To do
this, television writers often use stereotypes. A stereotype is a
fixed or conventional image of a person or group of people.
Media tends to demean men in caring or domestic roles, or those
who oppose violence.
Men always consider superior at women he’s doing violence in
front of their children, Trafficking movies, women show weak,
innocent, kind hearts.

12. MEDIA DEFINE
Media has defined how females and males should
look and act. Stereotypes play a huge role in this.
Though advertisements, performers, actors and
actresses, the standard male should be masculine,
dominant, physically fit, has abs, handsome.

13. SOME CHALLENGES FOR WOMEN
Many schools, and
other educational
institutions, reinforce
and support gender
stereotyped roles.
Impacts students'
perceptions of their
abilities and their
achievements.
Women has not
allowed to do study
after Enter or Matric
Class.
Such as Not in favor of
Co-education

14. HISTORY
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.
Concept of Hunter gather society
Men used to Hunt and women take care of children and homes.
women were submissive, quiet, neat, weak, clean, clumsy,
incompetent and motherly

16. LOOKS AT HISTORY
• Women could not vote before 1920s
• In the 1860s they formed ‘Suffragette’ Societies to bring the
unfairness of this to light

17. GENDER IS ALL AROUND Us.

18. GOOGLE SEARCHES…
• How to change the conversation?

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