Gender Stereotypes In Research

Culture and experience has produced stereotypes, and it is known that these stereotypes has contents (Schneider, 1991, 1996, 2005). These contents refer to gender, age and race (2005). Furthermore these contents affect the behavior of people and in other words, people begin to act differently upon knowing the age, race and gender of an individual (2005).

Interactions with other people could also identify the existence of stereotypes and it is believed that stereotypes are made up of positive and negative traits of an individual or a group, howsoever stereotypes is mostly made up of negative traits (2005). Although many of these stereotypes are said to be brief and it does not last too long (2005). According to Schneider (2005) there are different

Besides Sidanius and Pratto (1999, as cited by Schneider, 2005) asserted that gender and age could brought power and status hierarchy as well as it is important in highly developed societies.

Stereotypes in Gender

Studies shows that when it comes to gender stereotyping the traits of men are favorable than the traits of women, furthermore men possesses more good traits than women (Schneider, 2005 as cited from Broverman, et al., 1968). Aside from that gender does not just define gender as its particulars, but they address which gender role should such gender would portray, and stereotypes are affected by these gender related roles (2005).

According to Best, William and Briggs (1980, as cited by Schneider, 2005) traits of males such as strong and active where already persisted in culture, nevertheless, these stereotypes varies from culture to culture, still there are commonalities existing in such cultures (Schneider, 2005). Also men are describe to have a stronger physique (Nadikman, 1984) and they are more into sports than women. Yet women are describe to weak and more into arts (Schneider,

According to Heilman, Block, Martell and Simon (1989 as cited by Schneider, 2005) males achieve more than females. Nonetheless when it comes to traits augmentation, women who takes men’s occupation, does it is better than men, same as when men took the women’s job (2005).

In terms of how both gender perceive each other, studies has shown that males and females held different views on the content of gender stereotypes among various cultures (Der – Karabetian &Smith, 1977; Jackman, 1994; Rosenkrantz et al., 1968; William & Best, 1977, Schneider, 2005). Also they held the same view in gender stereotyping, for male perceive that there is high stereotyping in women and that others are gender – like (Schneider, 2005 as cited from Rudman, Greenwald, & McGhee, 2001). Moreover each gender both viewed themselves positively than other see them (Etaugh et al., 1984 as cited by Schneider,