ALL ABOUT

GENDER
STEREOTYPES
 INTRODUCTION
Stereotypes are defined as “beliefs held by
almost all the members of a social group
about other social groups and ethnic groups,
which are not based on objective evidences”
 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.
 What is Gender Stereotypes?
• Gender stereotypes
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 are, what other people find in you that they
may like or dislike.
 Types 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 barbie.
-Parents are the most contributive factor for this stereotyping.
 -Some example of stereotype about woman:

a. Women are not as strong as men

b. Women are supposed to have “clean jobs” such as

secretaries, teachers, and librarians

c. Women are nurses, not doctors

- Women are saying more gentle and kind heart person.
 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 stereotypes:

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

THE EFFECT OF GENDER STEREOTYPES

• Often impaired performance

-the performance of those under conditions of stereotype threat

suffres compared to those who perform under less threatening
conditions

• To physiological outcomes

-increase the blood pressure

 • 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
 • 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.
 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.
PREPARED BY: JOEMALYN
LENDIO

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