This document discusses gender and gender stereotypes. It defines gender as the attitudes, feelings, and behaviors associated with a person's biological sex in a given culture. Gender stereotypes are beliefs about traits of females and males. The document presents common female stereotypes such as women being nurturing and weak, and male stereotypes like men being aggressive and strong. It examines the effects of gender stereotypes, such as impaired performance and increased stress. The conclusion is that stereotypes should change as relations between groups change over time.
1. Presented by:
NUR HIDAYAH BINTI ABDUL RAZAK (D20121057613)
NOOR ATIRAH BINTI HASHIM ( D20121057687)
Lecturer’s name:
PROF DR. SHAMS UR REHMAN KHAN
2. 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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3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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
8. 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
9. men’sstereotypic 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
10. 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.
11. 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.