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Challenging Gender Stereotypes

Gender stereotypes are simplistic generalizations about gender attributes and roles that rarely convey accurate information. Traditionally, female stereotypes involve marrying, having children, and prioritizing family over self, while male stereotypes center around being the provider, assertive, and emotionally reserved. Children learn stereotypes from adults like parents and teachers. Androgyny offers an alternative approach that blends feminine and masculine qualities, while feminism has challenged traditional gender roles since the 1960s.

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Challenging Gender Stereotypes

Gender stereotypes are simplistic generalizations about gender attributes and roles that rarely convey accurate information. Traditionally, female stereotypes involve marrying, having children, and prioritizing family over self, while male stereotypes center around being the provider, assertive, and emotionally reserved. Children learn stereotypes from adults like parents and teachers. Androgyny offers an alternative approach that blends feminine and masculine qualities, while feminism has challenged traditional gender roles since the 1960s.

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Gender Stereotypes

Gender stereotypes are simplistic generalizations about the gender attributes, differences, and 
roles of individuals and/or groups. Stereotypes can be positive or negative, but they rarely 
communicate accurate information about others. When people automatically apply gender 
assumptions to others regardless of evidence to the contrary, they are perpetuating gender 
stereotyping. Many people recognize the dangers of gender stereotyping, yet continue to make these 
types of generalizations. 

Traditionally, the female stereotypic role is to marry and have children. She is also to put her 
family's welfare before her own; be loving, compassionate, caring, nurturing, and sympathetic; and 
find time to be sexy and feel beautiful. The male stereotypic role is to be the financial provider. He 
is also to be assertive, competitive, independent, courageous, and career­focused; hold his emotions 
in check; and always initiate sex. These sorts of stereotypes can prove harmful; they can stifle 
individual expression and creativity, as well as hinder personal and professional growth. 

The weight of scientific evidence demonstrates that children learn gender stereotypes from adults. 
As with gender roles, socializing agents—parents, teachers, peers, religious leaders, and the media
—pass along gender stereotypes from one generation to the next.

One approach to reexamining conventional gender roles and stereotypes is androgyny, which is the 
blending of feminine and masculine attributes in the same individual. The androgyne, or 
androgynous person, does not neatly fit into a female or male gender role; she or he can comfortably 
express the qualities of both genders. Parents and other socializing agents can teach their children 
to be androgynous, just as they can teach them to be gender­biased. 

Emerging as a powerful sociopolitical force beginning in the 1960s, the feminist movement, or 
women's liberation movement, has lobbied for the rights of women and minorities. Feminists have 
fought hard to challenge and redefine traditional stereotypic gender roles. 

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