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Gender Stereotyping In South Africa

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Gender stereotyping can be defined as “an over generalisation about the characteristics of an entire group based on gender” (Study.com Online.2003) which is usually a negative generalisation, that highlights the role of males and females in society.
The Constitution of South Africa, states that the basis of its values include, “Human dignity, through the achievement of equality and advancement of human rights and freedoms” as well as “None-racialism and non-sexism”. These values link closely to gender stereotyping which I interpret as the following, that males and females are to be treated as equals in our society but reality is these values are not being fulfilled.
Gender stereotyping, with regard to tradition, has been inherited from older generations. In the South Africa book , by Sol T. Plaatje, titled Mhudi the following is said about one of the chief’s wives, "Umnandi would willingly have given up her beauty and stately mien and forgotten her skill in cookery, in return for the birth of a baby boy as a present to her husband...” (Plaatje. 2005, p80). The extract indicates the role that females hold in, a traditional context, and gives insight into the African culture, where these values are very much active in the community.
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