GENDER STEREOTYPES

gender stereotypes



gender stereotypes

Introduction

Gender biasness, discrimination and stereotyping are the elements that are to be found on this face of earth since the evolution of mankind. Male dominancy is a growing concern of today world for the societies who focus on non biased working environment for both male and female. Countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan, Afghanistan etc. Are more inclined towards being called a male dominant society. It is majorly the Muslim block of the world that has laid down stress upon the dominancy of men over the environment, rest of the countries of Asia and the entire world are much less in male dominancy as compared to the Muslim block. It is basically the Asian culture of the East Asia and the gulf block which strictly emphasizes that women should stay at home and look after the family and kids, and this lays down great responsibility on the shoulders of a woman to the well being of the house, and not a professional career. Women in countries like these, are often to be ignored as professional women, and therefore; a very minor percentage of women get out of home and proceed towards profession. The situation is quite opposite in the western countries, in the United States of America, women have the liberty of choosing their career as to how they want it to be. No one in the American society looks down upon women as much as the Asian countries do, when a woman chooses her career.

Main Body

Every country has its own main stream culture which is somehow followed every where in the country. The culture may contain traditions and values which may be very old or may be modified according to the needs of today's world. There are a lot of countries who have altered their culture in order to go with the flow, but again there are still countries who have still maintained and preserved their culture and are not ready to alter it. Culture has a very heavy impact on the life of every individual, there are even a lot of Asian women who have come and settled in the united states of America just because they didn't had the liberty to choose the career of their choice back home, it was either because their family members had a parallel view or it was either not a part of their culture for women to choose such a career. A woman has the right to become a taxi driver here in the United States, where as, it is not allowed in Saudi Arabia for women to drive even.

I have taken into account three of my friends; my first friend is from Pakistan with a very different background than me. The other friend is a Chinese and the third one is an American.

1.Doctor

6. Dancer

 

10. Mechanic

My response: male

My response: male

 

My response: male

Friend1 response: female

Friend1 response: female

Friend1 response: male

Friend2 response: male

Friend2 response: female

Friend2 response: male

Friend3 response: male



Friend3 response: male

Friend3 response: ...