Gender Stereotypes At The University Of Calgary

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Gender stereotype at the university of Calgary
In my own words, I view gender as the status determined by society or culture in terms of assigning tasks and roles to men and women. And it is not determined by nature or biology. Sex on the other hand, is the natural condition of existing as a male or female and this cannot be assigned to an individual by society. In this essay, I am going to talk about my gender stereotype experience at the University of Calgary.
Gender stereotyping is when people make inexact, overly simplistic generalization of a group depending on their gender. For example, Macionis and Gerber state that “there are assumptions that young women are expected to excel in languages and social studies, young men in mathematics

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