Gender Stereotypes

Occupations and Gender

OccupationYour ResponsesYour Partner's Responses

1. DoctorFemale Female

2. LawyerMaleMale

3. School teacherFemaleFemale

4. Taxi driverMaleMale

5. DancerBothBoth

6. Baby sitterFemaleFemale

7. ChefMaleFemale

8. PilotMaleBoth

9. MechanicMaleMale

10. ArchitectMaleBoth

11. DesignerBothFemale

12. Make-up artistFemaleBoth

13. System engineerMaleMale

Gender stereotypes

Introduction

The overviews about the gender characteristics are called gender stereotypes. it also counts the differences and functions of individuals. sometime stereotypes are positives; on the other hand, sometime their impacts are totally negative. as a matter of fact, they are not often communicated in an accurate way of information that is of others. in other words, when it is being discussed the assumptions of gender to others without having been familiar to the evidences of the contrary, they are actually being responsible for it, stereotypes of genders. as a matter of fact, a number of even well-educated people identify the dangerous outcomes of the gender stereotyping. in spite of that they do not avoid to keep its generalizations continue. (Heilman 2001)

Discussion

The stereotypic part of female, traditionally, is to get married and bear children. traditionally, the idea assigns the female to welfare her family even before her own. as a matter of fact, following the idea, she has to be a loving person, caring person, kindhearted, nurturing, and an understanding person. along with these all duties, more above, she has to find the time for being happy in order to give her husband sexual pleasure.

If we have a look on the male stereotypic part, we will find it as a source of relaxation. in this domain, man is responsible for the financial support of the house. he is not dependent on her wife but independent, aggressive, and self-confident. the stereotypes of this type are full of harm. they suppress the creativity and expression of individual and hold back the professional growth of personal. it has been proven through the evidences of science that adults are the source of learning gender stereotypes for children. on the other hand, the socializing agents, in this regard, have a significant involvement in order to transfer the gender stereotype from one generation to another i.e. next coming generation. the socializing agents include the media, religious leaders, peers, teachers and parents as well.

Because the stereotypes may result to mistreat a person based on a particular idea, they are dangerous extremely. a number of people presume, whether consciously or subconsciously, the other people have less or no value, merely based on their gender. research concludes that this sort of notions affect the ...