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Gender Roles and Stereotypes
Gender Roles and Stereotypes
Gender Roles and Stereotypes
Stereotypes
Gender and Development
Workshop
It’s a girl thing or a boy thing?
Burping and Farting Engineer
Rescuing Set of spanners
Dancing Computer
Teacher programmer
Cooking Red
Pink Glitter
Doctor Mathematician
Lawyer
• Is it true that these are just girls or
boys things?
• Where do these ideas come
from?
• Where are these answers coming
from?
Gender Roles
Gender roles in society means how
we’re expected to act, speak,
dress, groom, and conduct
ourselves based upon our assigned
sex.
Gender Stereotypes
Gender stereotypes are beliefs
or assumptions about
characteristics, traits, behaviors
and roles of people based on
their sex.
Dominant Feminine Gender
Stereotype Examples