Gender Stereotyping

-  A widely accepted judgement or bias about a certain person or group, even if it can be harmful and overly simplified.

Stereotyping

Also defined as Sexism

Stereotyping

We often expect women to be soft, while men are perceived as aggressive.  

Personality Stereotyping

Some believe that women are expected to take care of the house. While men are usually given the responsibility to be the providers.  

Domestic Stereotyping

Women are usually tied to being doctors, nurses, and teachers. While men are connotated to be soldiers, engineers, and pilots. 

Occupation Stereotyping

Women are expected to be thin and graceful, while men are expected to be muscular and buff.  

Physical Stereotyping

Women are also the managers of the house, taking care of their food, nutrition and education.

Africa

 

Women in are under the risk of experiencing: Forced intercourse, Genital Mutilation, Polygamy. 60% of HIV-AIDS are found in Women.  

Africa

The Marriage Act of 1950 also stated that Women have the right to make their own decisions. Equal rights are seen in education , employment and healthcare system.  

China

Traditional marriages, arranged marriages, infanticides and one-child policies continue to perpetuate the journey for upholding women. The treatment on women by society depends on their social status.  

China

women still have equal opportunities when It comes to political life, access to education and economic opportunities. 

Middle East

Women set up many feminist movements, however most of them do not receive political and social support.  

Middle East

Modernization has put women in a better light. American companies migrated and began to hire more women for economic freedom.  

India

in rural areas, women are still subject to violence and discrimination. Because of the rampant corruption, education and socio-economic advances in rural areas still show signs of disparity.  

Indian Countries

• They have the highest standardized set of opportunities and freedom of speech.  

• Access to free birth control, that help maintain the health of women. 

Scandinavian Countries

A woman who's sexual orientation endures physical, emotional and romantic attraction to another women. They may either prefer, to be called gay.  

Lesbian

The adjective used to describe anyone who is enduring physical, emotional or romantic attraction to anyone of the same sex. Sometimes women prefer the term lesbian.  

Gay

A person who has the capacity to form attraction to both types of sexes on the binary scale. People may experience differing states of attraction throughout their lifetime. people do not need to have sexual experiences with other sexes to identify. In fact they do not need to have sexual experiences at all. 

Bisexual

An umbrella term for anyone whose gender identity does not align with their sex assigned at birth. People under this classification may describe themselves with 1 or more terms, or simply as transgender.  

 

Transgender

People, more specifically younger people who see the other connotations as unapplicable, their sexuality  is not specifically heterosexual. 

Queer

Recognized as hatred and violence enforced on a certain gender, or biological sex assigned at birth.  

 

Gender-based Violence

Refers to mental and psychological abuse. 

Emotional Violence

Type of Emotional Abuse: Insults and taunts, allegations of abnormality.  

 

Verbal

Type of Emotional Abuse: Disclose SOGIE to others, abandon, evict, imprison and harm self or others.  

Threats

Type of Emotional Abuse: Restricting interactions, invading privacy and monitoring communication.  

Controlling Actions

Type of Emotional Abuse: Non-verbal behaviors that express contempt, denial or rejection of a person's SOGIE.  

Silent Hostility

Type of Emotional Abuse: Withholding support/ denying financial help. 

Neglect

Type of Emotional Abuse: employment discrimination, and refusal of access to gendered facilities. 

Discrimination

Any form of violence done with intent to due bodily harm.  

Physical Violence

Battery

Physical Deprivation

Imprisonment and Confinement. 

Forced assault

Forced shock-electro therapy. 

Physical Violence

threats to rape, sending sexual images, unwanted sexual harassment and more.  

Sexual Violence

Refers to any harm done within an intimate or closely-knit relationship.  

Domestic Violence

Any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act by force or coercion, by any person regardless of their sex or gender and their relationship to the victim.

Sexual Violence