The Effects Of Gender Stereotyping

A stereotypes is a popular belief about specific social group or types of individuals. Stereotypes are standardize and simplified conceptions of groups based some prior assumptions. Gender Stereotyping is the expectation or belief that individuals within a certain culture hold about the behaviors that are characteristics of male or female in their given culture. As a research group we talked about how gender stereotyping can influence a child’s development. This research group also talked about what types of stereotyping might affect the child's development and who has the most affected on a child's gender development. The first issue in gender stereotyping is the power in work place. The concept of gender in relation to the division of labor in the workplace, and in relation to issues of power and control is an unfortunate, groundless stereotype. The gendered division of workplace labor is rooted in erroneous ideology of innate sex differences in traits and abilities, and operates through various control mechanisms. These control mechanisms are primarily exercised by men over women and serve to exaggerate differences between the sexes, especially surrounding women’s …show more content…
The effects of which should be stressed in order to enlighten the public about the evils of discrimination and seeks to prevent this matter. Definitely, gender stereotypes are harmful to men and women. It can lead to an unhappiness, loneliness and possibly violence towards themselves. So we can say that this gender stereotype will affect the relationship between men and women and also can influence the behavior of people that may lead to violence. As we are mention before, gender stereotype is also happened in workplace. This situation will lead to low of motivation among employees and also will cause a lack of productivity and job performance that can give bad impact to the