1. Workshop 3: Gender Stereotypes and
Prejudices
Teachers:
Aira Broka and Liga Grundsteine
13th March, 2013
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2. Workshop 3 results:
1.You know the difference between «gender»
and «sex».
2.You’ve made your own poster against
prejudices (age an gender)
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3. Take 1 lemon
1.This is your best friend right now.
Look at it for 2 minutes.
Speak with it!
2.Put the lemons in a pile.
How does it look like?
Lemons are like people- from far they look all look
the same. But when you go closer you see that each
of them are so different.
3.Take your lemon back.
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4. Task 1:
What did we learn yesterday?
Look at the cartoons.
Say what stereotypes or prejudices do you see in
the cartoons
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5. Say what stereotypes or prejudices do you see in
the cartoons
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6. Say what stereotypes or prejudices do you see in
the cartoons
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7. Say what stereotypes or prejudices do you see in
the cartoons
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8. Say what stereotypes or prejudices do you see in
the cartoons
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9. Say what stereotypes or prejudices do you see in
the cartoons
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10. Say what stereotypes or prejudices do you see in
the cartoons
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11. Say what stereotypes or prejudices do you see in
the cartoons
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12. Say what stereotypes or prejudices do you see in
the cartoons
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13. Say what stereotypes or prejudices do you see in
the cartoons
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14. Say what stereotypes or prejudices do you see in
the cartoons
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15. Say what stereotypes or prejudices do you see in
the cartoons
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16. Gender stereotypes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmhhbJIBo
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17. Questions to answer:
1.What was strange in the advert? Why?
2.Would the situation be normal if it was mum
and her friends? Why?
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18. «Sex» and «gender»
Sex: biologic
Defined by the nature.
Body .
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19. «Sex» and «gender»
Gender:
Social
Defined by the people
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20. What are most popular stereotypes about
men/women?
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21. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d6Q72Gq8
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22. Gender stereotypes
1.What stereotypes and prejudices did you see?
2.What constructs them?
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23. Ideal man/woman from media
Work in 4 groups. (25 min)
Make a model of an ideal woman/man the way it’s shown
in the magazines.
2 groups- man/ 2 groups-woman
Write some comments/tags.
Roles:
1.Boss
2.Time-keeper
3.Brain (write things down)
4.Artist (main poster person)
5.Motivator (makes good atmosphere)
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24. Ideal man/woman presentation
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25. Break
10 min
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26. Your message against stereotypes and
prejudices
Work in groups of 3-4 (30 min)
Make your own poster/short video for equality:
-gender/ age/ethnical
Take the piece of the postcard and find your
group. Group bosses find their people.
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28. Workshop 3 results:
1.You know the difference between «gender»
and «sex».
3.You’ve made your own poster against
prejudices
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29. Let’s revise..
Gender and sex differs …
Gender stereotypes are made by….
Now I know more about…
In this workshop I learned/understood….
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