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Gender Stereotype Final

This document discusses gender stereotypes, including how they are formed and their harmful effects. It defines stereotypes as generalized views about attributes of social groups. Gender stereotypes prescribe roles and characteristics for men and women. The document explores common male and female stereotypes and how stereotypes are influenced by media, peers, family and school. Negative effects of stereotypes include discrimination, bias, ambiguity, self-fulfilling prophecies and stereotype threat. By judging individuals based on stereotypes rather than their individual characteristics, stereotypes can damage both people and society.

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Gender Stereotype Final

This document discusses gender stereotypes, including how they are formed and their harmful effects. It defines stereotypes as generalized views about attributes of social groups. Gender stereotypes prescribe roles and characteristics for men and women. The document explores common male and female stereotypes and how stereotypes are influenced by media, peers, family and school. Negative effects of stereotypes include discrimination, bias, ambiguity, self-fulfilling prophecies and stereotype threat. By judging individuals based on stereotypes rather than their individual characteristics, stereotypes can damage both people and society.

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Gender

Stereotypes
Learning Objectives:

● Discuss characteristics of male and


female stereotypes in our society.

● Identify ways in which their own loves


have been affected by these
stereotypes.

● Identify the aspects of these stereotypes


that are related to violence.
Stereotype

● A generalised view or preconception


about attributes or characteristics that
are or ought to be possessed by
members of a particular social group
or the roles that are or should be
performed by, members of a particular
social group

● Allow us to process new information,


compare, and make decisions.
Stereotype
Stereotype

● Stereotypes help us to
quickly determine whether to
initiate a flight, fight or social
response to any situation
Gender
Stereotypes
Generalised view or preconception about
attributes, or characteristics that are or
ought to be possessed by women and men
or the roles that are or should be performed
by men and women.
Gender
Stereotyping
The practice of ascribing to an
individual woman or man specific
attributes, characteristics, or roles by
reason only of her or his membership in
the social group of women or men.
REAL MEN by Dick Reith

Ø Real men don’t change their socks.


Ø Real men have big cocks.
Ø Real men lay bricks.
Ø Real men lay chicks.
Ø Real men don’t mess up.
Ø Real men do press ups.
Ø Real men don’t stutter.
Ø Real men fix their own gutters.
Ø Real men can take their drink.
Ø Real men don’t need to think.
Ø Real men don’t cry and long before their
time they die.
Gender Stereotypes
Can be:
● Descriptive: beliefs about what men and
women typically do

● Prescriptive: beliefs about what men and


women should do

● Positive prescriptive stereotypes (PPS):


designate desirable behaviors that one sex is
encouraged to display more than the other

● Negative Prescriptive Stereotypes (NPS):


designate undesirable behaviors that one sex
should avoid more than the other.
Why do gender
stereotypes matter?

A stereotype is harmful when it limits women’s or


men’s capacity to develop their personal abilities,
pursue their professional careers and make
choices about their lives and life plans.
Gender Stereotypes
Basic Kinds of Gender Stereotypes

01 Personality Traits
Basic Kinds of Gender Stereotypes

02 Domestic Behaviors
Basic Kinds of Gender Stereotypes

03 Occupations
Basic Kinds of Gender Stereotypes

04 Physical Appearance
Hyperfemininity and Hypermasculinity
Stereotype
Hyperfemininity: exaggerated adherence to a
feminine gender role as it relates to
heterosexual relationships (Murnen and
Byrne, 1991).

Passive, naïve, soft, flirtatious, graceful,


nurturing, and accepting.
Hyperfemininity and Hypermasculinity
Stereotype

Hypermasculinity: exaggeration of
male stereotypical behavior
(Siddhanta & Singh, 2015)

Aggressive, sexually experienced,


insensitive, physically imposing,
ambitious, and demanding
Influence on Stereotypes

Media
Influence on Stereotypes

Friends (Peer Groups)


Influence on Stereotypes

Family
• Girls and boys are treated
differently. They are dressed
differently and given different
toys.

• Mothers mostly favored


affiliative play with their
daughters.

• Fathers respond negatively to


cross-gender behavior,
especially with their sons.
Influence on Stereotypes
School

Teachers have a preference to


treat boys and girls differently
through role assignments,
rewards, and punishment for
academic work.
Stereotypes

What Happens If
We Stereotypes?

Lead to Negative
Behavior
Effects of
Stereotypes
Discrimination:
● The judgement of an individual based
on the categorical characteristics
associated with the target’s social or
ethnic group.
● Discrimination:
○ Education
○ Employment
○ Maternity and pregnancy
discrimination
Appearance Bias

Halo Effect: tendency for positive


characteristics to be associated with
other positive characteristics
Attributional Ambiguity

● Uncertainty of stereotyped
individuals to interpret the cause of
other’s behavior toward them.
Self-fulfilling Prophecy

● Behavior in which one’s inaccurate


expectations about a person’s
behavior prompt stereotype
consistent behavior,
Self Stereotyping

Specific stereotypes that affect a


person’s evaluation of their abilities
Stereotype Threat

When people are aware of a negative


stereotype about their social group,
then they experience anxiety that
might confirm their stereotype,
undermining performance
WHOLE PERSON
BIOLOGICAL SEX
DIFFERENCESS SEXROLES
SEX ROLES

Social Definitions

CULTURAL
DIFFERENCES GENDER GENDER ROLES

Stereotyping

VIOLENCE Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Institutional


GENDER BIAS

Psychological
Chemical
Emotional
Physical
Financial

DAMAGED
SOCIETY
DAMAGED PERSON
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