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Stereotype
“A stereotype is a type of logical oversimplification in which all the members of a class or set are considered to be definable by an easily distinguishable set of characteristics”.
 
The term is often used with a negative connotation, as stereotypes can be used todeny individuals respect or legitimacy based on their membership in a particular group.In America, the term has long been associated with the Civil Rights movement and isimbued with a semblance of racial context.Stereotypes often form the basis of  prejudiceand are usually employed to explainreal or imaginary differences due to race, gender, religion, age, ethnicity, socio-economicclass, disability, and occupation, among the limitless groups one may be identified with.A stereotype can be a conventional and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image based on the belief that there are attitudes, appearances, or behaviors shared by allmembers of a group. Stereotypes are forms of social consensus rather than individual judgments. Stereotypes are sometimes formed by a previousillusory correlation, a falseassociation between two variables that are loosely correlated if correlated at all.The term
"stereotype"
derives fromGreek 
στερεός 
(
 stereos
)
 
"solid, firm"
+
τύπος 
(
tupos
) "blow, impression, engraved mark"
hence
"solid impression".
The term, in itsmodern psychology sense, was first used by
Walter Lippmannin his 1922 work 
 Public Opinion
although in the printingsense it was first coined 1798.
 
Gender or sex role stereotype:
 
“The socially determined model which contains the cultural beliefs about what the gender roles should be, It differs from gender role in that it tends to be theway people feel 'others' should behave”. Sex is a biological division which is fixed.Gender, in simple terms, is societal view of sex which is variable across time and space.
Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet in their book Language and Gender distinguish the two terms by suggesting that
“Sex is a biological categorization based primarily on reproductive potential,whereas gender is the social elaboration of biological sex.” 
GENDER STEREOTYPE:
“The term refers to the psychological traits and behaviors that are believed tooccur with differential frequency in the two gender groups and assertions about differences in general psychological makeup of the two gender groups provide support for the traditional sex role assignments of women and men and serve as socialization methods for children”.
Example
1.men are more aggressive than woman
 
2.women are more emotional than man
Explanation of Gender Stereotypes
Gender stereotypes present a conventionally simplified and standardizedconception or image concerning
 
the typical social roles of male and female, bothdomestically and socially. To simplify this definition, gender stereotypes are beliefs heldabout characteristics, traits, and activity-domains that are "deemed" appropriate for menand women. For example, traditionally, typical characteristics for women are piety,submissiveness, and domesticity, while authority, and social behavior, are traitscommonly held by men. However, as the product of social activity, gender stereotypes areneither perpetual nor static. They are influenced by the social ideology and economicmode held at a certain period of time accordingly, and are changing, even at timesreversing, with every significant social transformation. In the following section, thischange and "crossing" of gender stereotypes will be discussed.Male and female, which consist of human society, are two natural and contradictoryforces in the cosmos.
 
The ancient Chinese labeled them as Yin and Yang. Yin representsthe female, the negative, the darkness and softness. The Yang, on the other hand,represents the male, the positive, brightness, and hardness. Yin and Yang, according to theChinese, are, in a constant state of flux, interacting with each other and thusly balance theuniverse. It is because of the strong belief of this universal law, which decides the natureof female and male. This in turn results in the primitive gender stereotypes foundthroughout history. Men and women take their responsibilities respectively according to
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