A gender stereotype is a generalized view or preconception about attributes or characteristics or the roles that are or ought to be possessed by, or performed by, women and men. A gender stereotype is harmful when it limits women’s and men’s capacity to develop their abilities, pursue their professional careers, and make choices about their lives.
Whether overtly hostile (such as “women are irrational”) or seemingly benign (“women are nurturing”), harmful stereotypes perpetuate inequalities. For example, the traditional view of women as caregivers means that childcare responsibilities often fall exclusively on women.
Further, gender stereotypes compounded and intersecting with other stereotypes have a disproportionately negative impact on specific groups of women, such as women from minority or indigenous groups, women with disabilities, women from lower caste groups or with lower economic status, migrant women, and so forth.
Gender stereotyping refers to the practice of ascribing specific attributes, characteristics, or roles to an individual woman or man by reason only of her or his membership in the social group of women or men. Gender stereotyping is wrongful when it results in a violation or violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Examples include:
Not criminalizing marital rape, perceiving that women are the sexual property of men; and
Failing to investigate, prosecute, and sentence sexual violence against women, believing that victims of sexual violence agreed to sexual acts, as they were not dressing and behaving “modestly.”
Wrongful gender stereotyping is a frequent cause of discrimination against women. Moreover, it is a contributing factor in violations of a vast array of rights such as the right to health, adequate standard of living, education, marriage and family relations, work, freedom of expression, freedom of movement, political participation and representation, effective remedy, and freedom from gender-based violence.
Watch The Origins and Content of Gender Stereotypes. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-pPF7qTCQo
Take the Gender Stereotype Test. – https://www.idrlabs.com/gender-stereotype/test.php
If you are planning to work with the offender population, it is important that you understand where the criminal offender came from and experienced during their formative years. Watch Step Inside the Circle- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVxjuTkWQiE. Then, in 250 words or more, using APA style in-text citations, what kinds of stereotypes and prejudices do you have about people of other cultures? Do you find ways of vindicating those stereotypes or challenging them? What kinds of stereotypes do people of other cultures have about your culture? How do these stereotypes interfere, or not, with actual interactions?
