GENDER STEREOTYPING AND CAREER COUNSELING

Gender Stereotyping and How It Can Be Addressed In Career Counseling



Gender Stereotyping and How It Can Be Addressed In Career Counseling

The term gender refers to socially constructed sex, i.e., social practices and representations associated with femininity or masculinity. A stereotype is a typical and commonly shared picture that comes to mind when thinking about a particular social group or a category of people. Gender stereotypes are thus typical and socially shared representations of masculine or feminine traits and conducts.

Organization scholars have shown that gender stereotypes affect organizing processes. In her now classic study, Rosabeth Moss Kanter ...