Female Stereotyping

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are a bypass which people use to fill in the gaps in their facts about a group. Most of the time these stereotypes can positive or negative, but most of the time they are negative. Men automatically apply gender assumptions to women regardless of evidence to the contrary. Traditionally, the female stereotypic role is to marry and have children. Women put out their family's wealth and prosperity before their own. A woman has to be loving, compassionate, nurturing, and sympathetic. These types of stereotypes are proven to be very harmful and could prevent women to change their expression and creativity, as well as slow down their personal and professional growth. Women take the stereotypical comments to heart and could hurt them physically. "It's no surprise that discrimination against women is endemic worldwide. In response, national and international laws are tackling the pervasive devaluation of women by explicitly prohibiting gender-based discrimination" (Berke-Fogel) ...

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believing that women are inferior to men. Discriminating against women is concluding good traits are associated with men while the bad ones are associated with women. Men treat women as if they were their slaves or toy. "Up until the twentieth century women were often viewed as the property of their husbands or other male consorts" (Martin, Sullivan). Until the twentieth century women were treated as the males possession. The males' role was to marry and have children. They would have the wife provide for everything before herself and to find time to be sexy and feel beautiful for the male partner. The male stereotypic role is to be the financial provider.

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