Essays on Gender Stereotype

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The study examined the effects of stereotyping gender and age on the perception of their driving speed. There were two approaches used for selecting participants. A Qualtrics survey was used to study fifty-nine participants who were recruited from Social Psychology Laboratory course at Nevada State College and others (N = 25) recruited from the online social network Facebook. The procedure involved presenting participants with a written description of the driver in a two (age of the target: middle-age vs. old) by two (gender of the target: woman vs. man) between-subjects experiment. Afterwards, the participants watched a ten-second video clip and ...

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The work is devoted to the gender role development. The purpose of paper was to study theories associated with gender stereotypes, introduce practical surveys and prove that the childhood is influenced by gender stereotypes. It considers Albert Bandura's Gender Role development theory, gender stereotypes, gender identity, gender-typed behaviors and provides real-life examples. The paper reveals that gender stereotypes are popular in modern society despite the fact they were absent earlier. The first idea is that children experience prejudices about "male" and "female" behavior since early childhood. Then, Albert Bandura suggests that people behave in a certain way because they ...

We live in a world where toys are color-coded blue for boys and pink for girls. TV commercials for certain products food included are focused on men on one hand and others target women. Women have been cultured to be fond of “chick flicks” which are predominantly romantic comedies whereas men are meant to watch action movies and soccer. Roles and plays have been highly gendered. These cultural assumptions have been in existence since time immemorial. Therefore, the thesis by which this paper is guided is two-fold: there is a direct causative relationship between the cultural assumptions on gender ...

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G. Tendayu Viki, Kristina Massey, and Barbara Masser Focus of the article The article by Viki, Massey, & Masser, (2005) showcases how paternalistic attitudes towards female offenders may influence people’s perception of the crime. The authors prove that benevolent sexism turns hostile, when the female offenders commit crimes that defy the gender stereotypes. This paper uses the example of Myra Hindley, a criminal, who along with her accomplice murdered children, made videos of the murders, and disposed the dead bodies. The crime committed by Ms. Hindley defied the gender stereotype (women as caregivers and mothers) and quite expectedly ...

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Gender stereotypes in children is a common phenomenon that is instigated by the environmental conditions, especially social institutions such as schools, family, and religious institutions. The family is the basic socialization agent. However, all these social institutions categorize children into gender-based categories. Nevertheless, despite the widespread use of such initiatives to categorize individuals on gender basis, there has been little research to establish the causes of gender stereotypes in children. This research study hypothesized that, based on the cognitive development and environmental learning theory, environmental and cognitive factors interact to determine the gender stereotype and gender roles in children. ...

Despite the evolution of gender equality issues, there are still great differences between the educational goals and occupations held by both genders. Governmental programs in various countries have been designed to lure more women into fields that have been dominated by men, such as scientific and technological-based careers (Watt & Eccles, 2012). Some of these programs include the Workplace Gender Equality Act of 2012 in Australia, the Government Action Plan for Gender Equality in Finland, and even a program aimed at promoting gender equality in the workforce within developing countries. Yet, despite these programs, there still remains a large disparity between the ...

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Many are unaware that the Media has always had a vital role when it comes to the representation of various groups in the society, but television, as the most general medium, plays an important position in shaping and representing attitudes. Promotion, as one of the television genres, is considered to be a very prominent discourse kind in almost all modern societies (Cook, 2005). Furthermore to data concerning products and services, it concepts a secondary discourse in regards to society and power and also the relations. Gender relations are looked at one of the secondary discourses that ads create. The image of man ...

In his short story “Eveline,” James Joyce presents a character who apparently wants to escape the confines of her current life but who ultimately chooses to stay confined. The story does not explicitly state the reasons for her decision, leaving it up to the reader to provide a rationale for what seems to be a foolish choice. In some ways, though, her decision may be interpreted less as a failure of courage on her part and more as a failure of imagination on Joyce’s part. Simply put, Joyce succumbs in the story to the traditional gender stereotype of women as lacking courage and ...

“[She] is wunderbar, but she is not my Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz.” People have a certain inclination to finding their destiny, their one true love, their soulmate. Usually, it would be considered almost a dream that a speech so meaningful and significant will be coming from a guy. However, to think this argument as valid would also be close to thinking that our world is mostly confined to all its biases and stereotypes. This is evidently not the case today. Such is much portrayed in many forms of modern mass media. The world of television and movies, for instance, is a vast land of different characters ...