Examples Of Stereotypes Of Women Essay

The Essay That Offended Everyone Throughout all of history, men and women’s gender roles has separated by different physical abilities and ones strengths and weaknesses. This has allowed some stereotypes to facilitate and become incorporated into our society. Right or wrong many youth look up to these stereotypes to become what they think is an ideal person. One of the more common ones that has arisen recently is the stereotype that men take care of the more manual outside jobs, jobs that usually require more physical strength, and the women therefore tend to stay inside the house and keep to tending to cleaning and the kitchen. With a growing patriarchal society, the men, usually assigned to harsh and demanding jobs, have the physical figure to sustain these hard tasks week after week; year after year. So, with the standard set, many women stayed locked up in their houses and many men were left being burdened with outside general physical activities and jobs. All stereotypes come from some truth, and this …show more content…
This is also the case with young girls, learning to expect that they will mature to become beautiful princesses like the ones depicted in the Disney movies and portrayed by the Grimm’s brothers. Cinderella, always doing house work, was always in the kitchen or cleaning the house. While not all of the women were inside doing chores, it can be pointed out that Cinderella was forced to listen to her father and stayed inside to clean and everything turned out ok for her, marrying the prince and having her birds pluck out her sister’s eyes. Young girls can infer that through being submissive and not doing tougher jobs, that life will turn out pretty well. She displays unrealistic results and further adds to the stereotype that women should stay inside the house and