Gender Stereotyping

Question: How do you feel about gender stereotyping? Whats your position on that issue? Answer: According to me, gender stereotype is an over-generalized and comparatively strait-jacket idea (Steffens, Buchner, Mecklenbruker, 2005) that is used for defining what is appropriate and normal for an individual based on the biological sex that he was born as (Dasgupta Asgari, 2004). This stereotyping according to me makes an individual weaker and unable to in their minds do tasks that otherwise if not for this stereotyping could have been done by them, such as a single parent looking for the partner to help raise children. It also gives fuel to the fire of discrimination that exists against the LGBT community. Reference Dasgupta, N. Asgari, S. (2004). Seeing is believing: Exposure to counterstereotypic women leaders and its effect on the malleability of automatic gender stereotyping. Journal Of Experimental Social Psychology, 40(5), 642-658. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2004.02.003 Steffens, M., Buchner, A., Mecklenbruker, S. (2005). Gender bias in fame judgments: Implicit gender stereotyping or matching study phase fame?. Psychonomic Bulletin Review, 12(3), 495-501. https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/bf03193794