GENDER STEREOTYPES AND

SEXISM

Presented by:
BALTAZAR B. ROSALES
TEACHER III
 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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What is Sexism?
 Sexism refers to the selectively
unjustified negative behavior against
women or men as members of a
social category. Although it is
particularly used to denote
discrimination against girls and
women.
Individual Sexism
 Individual Sexism involves stereotypic attitudes
and behaviors. Part of the definition of gender roles
in Western culture involves assumptions about the
types of occupations, lifestyles and abilities that
are held to be appropriate for men and women.

 What kind of assumptions are made about the

types of occupations, lifestyles and abilities that
are held to be “appropriate” for women? For Men?

 Why do you think we make these assumptions?

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.
 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:

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
- Woman 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 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
Example of Gender Stereotypes
Traditional Gender Stereotypes
Gender Stereotypes
 Much research done in 1960s & 70s
 Agentic/Instrumental—men
Independence, strength, self-confidence
 Communal/Expressive—women
Emotional, helpful, kind
 Gender polarization
Common Gender Stereotypes:
Traits
Beliefs about Women  Beliefs about Men
 Able to devote self to  Active
others  Can make decisions
 Aware of others’ feelings easily
 Emotional
 Competitive
 Feels superior
 Helpful
 Independent
 Gentle  Never gives up
 Kind easily
 Understanding  Self-confident
 Warm  Stands up well under
pressure
 Common Gender Stereotypes:
Roles
Beliefs about Women Beliefs about Men
 Cooks the meals  Assumes financial
 Does the household obligations
shopping  Head of household
 Does laundry
 Financial provider
 Leader
 Is fashion conscious  Responsible for
 Source of emotional household repairs
support  Takes initiative in sexual
 Takes care of children relations
 Tends the house  Watches sports on
television
Common Gender Stereotypes: Physical
Characteristics
Beliefs about Beliefs about Men
Women  Athletic
 Beautiful  Brawny
 Cute  Broad-shouldered
 Dainty  Burly
 Gorgeous
 Muscular
 Physically strong
 Graceful
 Physically vigorous
 Petite  Rugged
 Pretty  Tall
 Sexy
 Soft voice
Common Gender Stereotypes: Cognitive
Abilities
Beliefs about Women Beliefs about Men
 Artistic  Analytical
 Creative  Exact
 Expressive  Good at abstractions
 Imaginative
 Good at numbers
 Good at problem
 Intuitive
solving
 Perceptive  Good with reasoning
 Tasteful  Mathematical
 Verbally skilled  Quantitatively skilled
The Effect Of Gender Stereotypes
 often impaired performance
 the performance of those under
conditions of stereotype threat suffers
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.
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 attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a given
culture associates with a person’s biological sex

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.
 Sexism refers to the selectively
unjustified negative behavior against
women or men as members of a
social category. Although it is
particularly used to denote
discrimination against girls and
women.
 Belief about women in their physical
characteristics./traits/roles
 Belief about men in their physical
characteristics./traits/roles
 Two types of gender stereotypes
 What does it mean
to be
a male or a female?
 What can sexist attitudes lead to??