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Both of the article "Boys and Girls" by Alice Munro and "We haven't come that far after all" by Diane Francis introduce the relationship between female groups and society, and gender stereotype of women. The story" Boys and Girls" introduces few stories of the narrator in her childhood that related to the gender stereotype while the info-text describes the position of females in this society and they are treated differently although women were liberated from traditional thinking. Generally speaking, texts show that the narrator and the writer regards female gender stereotype as an important issue, however, the narrator uses a more direct way to against gender stereotype while the writer of info-text decides to compromise and face it with positive attitude. …show more content…

The narrator in "boys and girls" feels unfair to what her mother said and paid attention to her mother's thinking. Obviously, her mother thinks Laird will be a "real help" and does not think "[she has] a girl in the family" ( page 3 para3), and the narrator wonder " [Laird] was no help to anybody". So the narrator feels unfair about what her mother said , she thinks that Laird is useless and may become a threat to her work, so she produces questions to argue her mother's thinking and pays a lot of attention to the words she hears. In addition, the writer of the info-text also pays attention on the female gender stereotype. There are only " 16.7% of corporate officers are women." and only "9.8% of directorship are held by women" (page 1 para8,9). So the writer uses a number of data to address the gender stereotype of female and to show how serious it is. It shows that the writer did lots of work before writing this text and some of the examples are cruel for people, which means she pays attention on the stereotype in real life. She puts not only females but also the gender stereotype that female group experienced into a serious

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