What We Should Know About Stereotypes Of Women

What we should know about stereotypes is that they are characteristics that describe groups of people involving gender, race, national origin and other factors. They are a result of incomplete or distorted information accepted as fact without question. A stereotype is an extensively held belief that an individual is a member of a certain group based on characteristics. Due to the process of overgeneralization within social perception, stereotyping leads to a great deal of precision in social perception

it is important to know stereotype by gender. Whether we are women or men is not determined just by our sex organs. Our gender includes a complex mix of beliefs, behaviors, and characteristics. How do you act, talk, and behave like a woman or

Domestic behaviors, for example: caring for children is often considered best done by women, while household repairs are often considered best done by men. Occupations, for example: until very recently most nurses and secretaries were usually women, and most doctors and construction workers were usually men. Physical appearance, for example: women are expected to be small and graceful, while men are expected to be tall and broad-shouldered

Girls are taught very early to follow stereotypes more than boys do. When girls are little parents gift them toys that teach how to be a woman of the house like how to be a good mom (with the babies dolls),

How to become a nanny of your house (with cooking toys), how you have to be when your grown (with Barbie’s), etc. Parents also read to their girls Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty; they all were helpless at one point. Cinderella was treated badly by her family, Snow White lived alone and did all the chores and cooking, and Sleeping Beauty was just helpless gullible. But in the end their prince charming came to them and saved them, teaching little girls that girls are helpless and need a man to sweep them off their feet. This affect to the mentality of the girl who grew up thinking that been a girl is the worst thing and if they don´t have a Barbie body they will

They can be a very useful tool for those remaining power. By manipulating the message, media can create a certain image of reality, which is consistent with the policy of the dominant group. As a result, the reflection of a real world is incomplete and distorted because is a general idea of a perfect thing by a popular eyes. Although people are aware of the unequal representation of certain social groups in mass media, it is hard to remain objective and insensitive to its influence.

To continue talking about the problem that occurs when you get carried away by the stereotype. I will put 10 cases of young women who let the body of Barbie had so much power in their heads that transform a plastic body into a flesh and bone body

Meet Alina Kovalevskaya a young girl of only 21 years she is Ukrainian also she affirms that she had never gotten a surgery, is she really pretty? Alina studying psychology at a university in Ukraine she has long blond hair, very white skin, and using special contact