Gender+Stereotype

Gender Stereotypes
//Definition// -An oversimplified or distorted generalization about the characteristics of men and women

Summary
//Gender stereotypes// are oversimplified or prejudiced opinions and attitudes concerning the way men and women should behave. //Gender stereotypes// deals with the way men and women should behave, or think they should behave.
 * EX**: Men should be rugged and women should be sensitive-this looks way back in to history and how men and women survived (//division of labor//).

-Gender roles can become very ridge that they turn into gender stereotypes.

-Today we look at it differently;modern technology and birth control have freed the women from duties associated with child rearing and childbearing for a large part of their lives. -Gender role division is no longer as effective especially, in the labor force -People look at the concept of masculine and feminine in a whole different prespective


 * ==Additional Information==

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sexism&oldid=190869688-wikipedia [[http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec98/gender.html