1. NATURALISED GENDER
ROLES AND ATTACHED
STEREOTYPES
COMPILED BY:-
Alina Charaniya (74)
Ankita Gandhi (78)
Indu Lekha (87)
Kriti Mathur (93)
Swati Chauhan (132)

2. GENDER ROLES??
• Gender roles are cultural and
personal. Meaning to say : they are
not natural but are “naturalised”.
• They determine how males and
females should think, speak, dress,
and interact within the context of
society.

3. • These roles are internalized and
thus accepted by all of us across
the globe.
• The question to ask- when does
this internalization start??

4. When you first color a room pink or blue for your
unborn baby, you start prescribing a certain set of
characteristics to your child.

5. • In his essay “Toys”, a French literary theorist, talks
of French Toys.
• These toys are essentially a microcosm of the adult
world; reduced copies of human objects, “as if in the
eyes of the public the child was, all told, nothing but
a smaller man who must be supplied with objects of
his own size”
• “The fact that French toys literally prefigure the
world of adult functions obviously cannot but
prepare the child to accept them all, by constituting
for him, even before he can think about it, the alibi of
a Nature which has at all times created soldiers,
postmen and Vespas. ”

6. So what are
toys basically??
• An adult human beings aspiration to create
miniature adults, our copies out of our children .

7. • A boy is always gifted a car, a gun, a
soldier, a superhero, etc.
• A girl is always gifted a doll/ Barbie, a
pony, etc.

8. THE WORLD THAT WE RAISE OUR
CHILDREN IN.

9. THE WORLD THAT WE RAISE OUR
CHILDREN IN.

10. Cultural roles and stereotypes
• Once the process of compartmentalizing
is initiated it never stops, is met at every
point in life.
• The society
succumbs to and
also expects men
and women to
behave in certain
respective
fashions.

11. THE NATURALIZED DIVISION
OF LABOR

12. ASSOCIATING OCCUPATIONS WITH
GENDER

14. OTHER COMMON STEREOTYPES ASSOCIATED WITH THE TWO GENDER

17. HOW THEY ARE EXPECTED TO
REACT TO LOVE.

19. STEREOTYPES ATTACHED
TO MEN
• Be a man…..
“kismat ki hai kadki, roti
kapda aur ladki teeno hi
papad belo to miley”

21. Men hear nothing except the
language of sports

22. BOYS DON’T LIKE PINK-
PINK IS GIRLY!!

23. STEREOTYPES ATTACHED TO
WOMEN

24. WOMEN BELONG TO THE
PRIVATE

25. WOMEN’S PLACE IS IN THE KITCHEN

26. WOMEN ARE BAD DRIVERS

27. WOMEN CAN’T EXCEL ACADEMICALLY,
WOMEN DON’T NEED TO EITHER.

28. WOMEN SUCK AT MATHS

29. THE IRONY……

30. THE CULT OF MOTHERHOOD

32. PENIS ENVY

33. GENDER AND CHRISTIANITY

34. PARADISE LOST –
JONATHAN SWIFT
• For contemplation he and valor formed,
For softness she and sweet attractive
grace;
He for God only, she for God in him.
His fair large front and eye sublime
declar'd
Absolute rule;

35. GENDER AND HINDUISM

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