Gender Stereotypes and Challenges 1 What descriptive words

Gender Stereotypes and Challenges

1. What descriptive words come to mind when viewing these images?

2. How do these images challenge traditional gender stereotypes? 3. Which image is most “socially unacceptable” – why?

4. What does the term “damsel in distress” mean to you? Provide a scenarios where women typically need to be rescued. According to www. Healthguidance. org: 1. Women are supposed to have "clean jobs" such as secretaries, teachers, and librarians 2. Women are nurses, not doctors 3. Women are not as strong as men 4. Women are supposed to make less money than men 5. The best women are stay at home moms 6. Women don’t need to go to college 7. Women don’t play sports 8. Women are not politicians 9. Women are quieter than men and not meant to speak out 10. Women are supposed to be submissive and do as they are told 11. Women are supposed to cook and do housework 12. Women are responsible for raising children 13. Women do not have technical skills and are not good at "hands on" projects ] 14. Women are meant to be the damsel in distress; never the hero 15. Women are supposed to look pretty and be looked at 16. Women love to sing and dance 17. Women do not play video games 18. Women are flirts

4. What does the term “man up” mean to you? Give three domestic chores that typically fall under a man’s responsibility. According to www. Healthguidance. org: 1. All men enjoy working on cars 2. Men are not nurses, they are doctors 3. Men do "dirty jobs" such as construction and mechanics; they are not secretaries, teachers, or cosmetologists 4. Men do not do housework and they are not responsible for taking care of children 5. Men play video games 6. Men play sports 7. Men enjoy outdoor activities such as camping, fishing, and hiking 8. Men are in charge; they are always at the top 9. As husbands, men tell their wives what to do 10. Men are lazy and/or messy 11. Men are good at math 12. It is always men who work in science, engineering, and other technical fields 13. Men do not cook, sew, or do crafts

Have you ever… 1. 2. 3. 4. danced in ballet? shot a gun? played hockey? played Grand. Theft Auto? 5. knit?

How do these toys challenge societal stereotypes? Would you have played with them as a child?

Do toys need to be genderized?

v http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=UFpe 3 Up 9 T_g#t= 86 v Stereotypes: v Girls need pink toys v Girls wear dresses v Girls like dolls

Time to Change… v Message: v “We would like to use our brains” v “We are all more than princess maids!” v Girls that build a spaceship, can engineer things, can make new apps v “Don’t underestimate girls” Change is: new opportunities