Gender Stereotypes

How women are perceived by others, and how women perceive themselves, impacts their leadership roles in the work place. Stereotypes and gender biases are themes women have been dealing with for centuries. How women are perceived by social medial and television have been influencing how they are treated by men, and how they view themselves when it comes to taking a leadership role in their organization. According to Omega Institute (2012), “The rapidly shifting landscape of new media and technology, including reality television and celebrity culture, continue to reinforce gender stereotypes” (p. 1). This leads to men still growing up viewing women as home makers versus bread winner. With more women entering leadership roles in the work place they lack the respect from men due to how these men have grown up to know the typical role of a man and woman. Men tend to feel belittled due to the gender stereotypes seen on television, and this leads to women struggling to succeed as a leader with the lack of support from their male counterparts. Lack of confidence with women in the workplace is also influenced and effected by how women are perceived in social media and television. According to Steele (2005), “Exposure to stereotypic commercials persuade women to avoid leadership roles” (p. 276). As young women grow up seeing the typical gender stereotypes they lack ambitions to break the mold and

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Women stereotypes have kept women from being successful in male dominated jobs. With women being housewives and care givers they do not fit the role of being a laborer. Gaining education and joining male dominated jobs have changed the trend of being house wives and care givers. Single mothers can have been working and being a care giver for many years now. Many skills that women have exceled at such as multitasking has helped women become successful in many fields of work. Regardless of the efforts women make to succeed in male dominated jobs they are passed up by other men for higher level jobs. With women starting to have interests in mathematics, mechanics, and other male dominated jobs they must conform into male dominated jobs. When women

I feel much the same you as you do about this subject. Perceptions concerning women have changed drastically over the past 100 years but there are still people that cling to gender stereotyping. I whole-heartedly agree with your comments and especially with your closing comment that “with time and an open mind” we will see that the effects of negative cultural stereotypes concerning gender will continue to decrease and eventually be eliminated.

In well-known fairy tales the males and females characters are often portrayed in the same light. The male characters are often described as the hero with strong masculine traits while the female characters are portrayed as the damsel in distress. Throughout the years fairytales have been casting the same stereotypes for their characters. In the story Beauty and the Beast the author de beaumont depiction of what an ideal woman is lays in Beauty. She is meant to embody the role of a feminine, humble caretaker, lover, and savior. The author depicts males as provider’s, however, it is clear that the men in the story are dependent on a positive female figure for life. Beauty’s disappearance threatens both her father and beast with death, symbolizing

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Are all blondes unintelligent? Are all Arabs and Muslims terrorists? Are all guys messy and unclean? These questions portray different examples of stereotyping that has always been in our society and are unavoidable. A stereotype is defined as, “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing” (English Oxford Living Dictionaries 1). Stereotypes are commonly emphasized on people of cultures or races; however, gender stereotypes also exist and have existed since the beginning of time. With gender stereotypes still prominent today, it has affected all kinds of people around the world including myself and Marjane Satrapi from her graphic book Persepolis.

For this homework assignment, I chose an image that represented a very “typical” gender stereotype. I specifically picked this picture form Google images, because I wanted to demonstrate that even children at a young age are facing the same gender stenotypes that male and female face when they become older. This image portrays what a “typical” guy and girl should be like. According to society, a guy/male should be tough, strong, manly, more active, etc.… A girl/female should be girly, look pretty, be submissive, more responsible, etc.…

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When you watch a Broadway performer, what do you see? A person singing and dancing on stage? In my eyes, it is more. It’s about feeling confident and knowing I control what happens when I step upon the stage. I am in control. I am not the only one who knows this though. As a performer, I am often accompanied by girls and boys who are younger than me. To date, there are two girls that I take a special interest in and have shown me their confident sides. Whether they are mice or party scene girls they don’t let me forget that it’s their time to shine. They are the inspiration for my platform. They have shown me how children can embrace their self-confidence through the Arts.

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The media plays one of the major roles in fueling this fear. By portraying horrifying scenes from around the world, the media introduces fear into “large populations, especially in countries where the average household watches television eight hours a day” (Beuhler n.p). The media seems to excel when covering conflict, especially when it comes to the Islamic world, which is filled with conflicts. The film industry has also been blamed for advancing Islamophobia by portraying Muslims and Arabs as the “bad guys” in Hollywood and Bollywood movies. Such movies influence how Muslims are viewed. The Hollywood film industry has defended itself by stating that they have avoided using Muslims as the villain since 2001. Similary, Bollywood, the Indian

I knew my sister was a good swimmer and she told the instructor that too. He was still unsure. After a while of persuading he let her go. Everything turned out to be good and it was a very fun and amazing experience. Later that night I thought about what the instructor had said. He kept saying girls were not strong enough and it could be dangerous. When I thought about it, I realized that the majority, about 75 percent of the lifeguards and sports instructors were males. Females mainly worked at the shacks and restaurants on the boardwalk and the areas near the beach. I found it kind of weird, as I’ve never seen that happen before. Usually at beaches and pools there are more female lifeguards and water sport instructors. The gender stereotype in this situation is that women are weak and not capable of doing tasks that impose big physical strength. Generally, media considerably affected the general public and socialization of people. Today, the effect of broad communications has turned out to be considerably huger on the grounds that individuals are constantly presented to the effect of broad

I strongly believe that boys and girls should get the opportunity to play on the same team together if they wanted to.This would make them be able to learn more about the sport and help them to get better.If boys and girls were on the same teams they would be able to make more friends and there wouldn't be as much drama. One more reason I think that they should be able to be on the same team is because it would challenge them to get better and help them engage in each other without being shy.

For years the media such as, television, magazines, Instagram, twitter, and numerous other internet outlets have been encouraging women to have a lack of confidence in themselves and their body image. They promote unrealistic ideas of what women’s bodies should look like by constantly advertising the thinnest women in the world. When selling products by creating unnatural body types first started, the media probably did not understand what they were doing, or that more and more negative effects will come out of this the longer it occurs. The number of damaging outcomes that continues to occur is at an all-time high and will only continue to grow. The media is putting too much pressure on women by allowing fitness journeys to be posted on social